Quotes About Ethics

An imam should be able to say that homosexuals are worse than pigs. My only demand is that you mustn't incite violence.

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

The president can violate the law, and when he does, he is supposed to be held accountable. That is supposed to be one of the pillars of our democracy.

Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness of the likes of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

One of the core pillars of the modern American conservative movement is its emphasis on personal responsibility.

Some people in the press don't respect people in life. I can put my head on my pillow and sleep great because I respect everyone.

If crimes are committed, they are committed by people; they are not committed by some free-floating entity. These companies and other entities don't operate on automatic pilot. There are individuals that make decisions - and some make the right decisions, and some make the wrong decisions.

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.

I don't want to be the Pied Piper of fast food.

I always say this, but I'm saying this again. Do not encourage piracy.

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

The Pirate Bay was never for making people not pay, it was for making people free to choose what to share and who they want to share it with.

The Pirate Bay was never for the money.

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

I love football and I believe in fair play, both on and off the pitch.

You can be rivals out on the pitch, but respect is the most important thing.

My father instilled in me the need to behave correctly on and off the pitch.

The most important thing is that everybody is professional on the pitch and gives 100 percent.

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when they're pushed against that wall, and how they're manipulated. They are both morality tales, though in very different genres.

In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie.

Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.