Quotes About Ethics

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

Nobody would dare to show Rajini sir in bad light through a film.

Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

Was I believer in Enron Corporation? Yes, sir, I was.

During his time at BHS, Sir Philip Green treated the company as his own personal plaything. Instead of investing in its branches and developing its brand, he ran down the pension scheme and used the company to line his own pockets.

My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her.

My career has always revolved around what I do and don't want my sisters and brothers seeing me doing.

What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film yourself doing that? Who put you up to that? What are you getting out of that?'

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

I'm not of the ilk that there's something immoral about doing an unfunny sitcom - it just gets boring and unchallenging.

You can't erase Bill Cosby's contributions. That's the conflict. He's one of the most influential comedians of all time, and 'The Cosby Show' is one of the most influential sitcoms ever. When I watched as a kid, I wanted Cliff to be my dad. Everybody did.

If AOL had ever ordered me to remove a piece of content from the site for any reason, I would have immediately written about it and disclosed the situation to our readers. And if I had ever ordered a writer to remove content, I would have expected that writer to have done the same to me.

You think looting is bad in Egypt, look at Peru, India, China. I've been told in China there are over a quarter-million archaeological sites, and most have been looted. This is a global problem of massive proportions, and we don't know the scale.

In social networking sites, individuals hide their identities and indulge in individual attack on celebrities and others. It's a wrong kind of politics.

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.

In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.

In general, we as police officers - at least the good police officers - like to look at each situation case by case and always pay close attention to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law.

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.