Quotes About Ethics

In 20 years of career and 50 professional fights, I never refused to test or failed to apply for a license to fight.

I have refused to do plenty of films since there are some scenes that I am not comfortable doing on screen.

Somebody wanted me to autograph her breast and I kindly refused. She was in college. I thought maybe I shouldn't do that.

That's one reason I retired as a sergeant and not at a higher rank... I refused to 'play the game' the way the bosses wanted the game played. It is a decision that has cost me money in retirement pay but one that I have never regretted.

I encountered producers who wanted to hang out after we worked, and when I refused, they wouldn't let me come back and work again... I would've have way more opportunities if I had succumbed. But it never felt right. I always felt like I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to compromise my morals.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.

I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose, and am devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard.

In the Middle Eastern culture, it is looked upon with very high regard to get the best deal possible, no matter what it takes, and that includes lying.

I contribute to public candidate campaigns, and there's a federal limit on how much you can contribute to each individual candidate. I obey the law in that regard, and I feel like I'm doing it properly.

Why is it that the king can do no wrong? This shows they do not regard the king as being a human. But the king can do wrong.

To criticize the attorney general for permitting justice to be done without regard to political party is very disturbing.

The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

There is a finite group of major financial players... and overall, the best thing for all of us is to be in an industry that's well respected, well regarded, and well thought of.

The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

There can be no compromise regarding corruption.

I don't necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it's always my job to influence people regarding my opinion.

I vote my conscience first and my constituents next, regardless of the direction of our leadership.