Quotes About Ethics

I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching.

When you ask to go to some other country and fight their local best guy, and you know the judges are going to be his friend and the referee is going to be his coach, the head of commission guys is probably going to be his relative or something like that, and you're asked to do that for 100 Euros. Nobody wants to do that.

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

Politicians can't be expected to answer for the actions of their relatives.

My father said, 'Aren't you going to do anything to help people? We have a whole rack of relatives who are always breaking the law. At least help your relatives.' And so that's what I did.

I have, from the beginning, been opposed to Trump hiring any of his relatives. Americans don't like that; I don't like that. That's the one fascist thing he's done. Hiring his kids.

Trump's foundation has done nothing. Its board is packed with relatives, and he's going to use his presidency to sell himself and his brand and profit personally for himself and his family.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

I'm pretty relaxed on what people should be able to do as long as they're not hurting anybody else.

I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

I get really, really concerned when I see somebody, taking $600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, will not release what they're actually saying. That's concerning.

Especially in hip-hop, no one takes responsibility for their actions.

It is right to give every man his due.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.

I don't like hitting people in the face.

If you're tanking to get a higher draft pick, you really shouldn't be playing hockey.

Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage.

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.