Quotes About Ethics

I really can't get involved with any project that I don't feel a hundred percent I can stand behind.

Historically, over the last two or three hundred years, the relationship that we've had with money as a society - having money, talking about money - has been a little bit of a shameful thing. Splashing money about is clearly wrong, but there's nothing wrong about giving it back.

The fact is I don't even have one cent of savings abroad, don't have accounts at foreign banks, don't have deposits abroad and don't even have any shares in foreign firms, much less hundreds of billions of dollars.

When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.

Evil is done by oneself alone; By oneself is one defiled. Evil is avoided by oneself; By oneself alone is one purified. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; No one can purify another.

Not doing evil is happiness.

One who does evil is tormented in this life, Tormented in the next, Is tormented in both worlds. Here he is tormented, knowing, "I have done evil." Reborn in realms of woe, he is tormented all the more.

Doing no evil, Engaging in what's skillful, And purifying one's mind: This is the teaching of the buddhas.

Pollock delighted in underhand work – it was not so different from being a lawyer

Those whom Nietzsche calls masters are certainly powerful men, but not men of power, since power is in the gift of the values of the day.

Spinoza is, for me, the 'prince' of philosophers.

We do not feel ourselves outside of our time but continue to undergo shameful compromises with it. This feeling of shame is one of philosophy's more powerful motifs. We are not responsible for the victims but responsible before them.

you'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy

People behaved mostly well and then they died.

My mother had always told her kids: If you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

Imagine the jacket copr: People behaved mostly well and then they died.

You can like an immoral character because she's interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner.

noblesse oblige

Los cerdos son criaturas extremadamente inteligentes y sociables, y esa intimidad forzada de cadena de montaje hace que a las cerdas madres les entren ganas de morirse. Cosa que hacen, en cuanto se les seca la leche. La sola idea de esa práctica me parece repulsiva, pero el hecho de verla con tus propios ojos te afecta muy directamente, te hace menos humano. Como ser testigo de una violación y no decir nada.

People have to do awful things for the money.

And missouri has the death penalty,' I said. 'Fun Game.

I'm not one of those reporters who relishes picking through people's privacy. It's probably the reason I'm a second-rate journalist.

Power is the ability to persuade stupid people to do intelligent things and intelligent people to do stupid things. This is why power is dangerous.

Probabilmente qualche altro inquilino si era accorto di quell'acqua che scorreva fuori da quella porta, ma si era ben guardato dall'avvisare qualcuno, il portiere: la civiltà di massa ha questo pregio, che ciascuno può annegare liberamente senza che gli altri gli diano fastidio nel tentativo di salvarlo. È in fondo una forma di delicatezza e di rispetto dell'opinione altrui di morire da sé.