Quotes About Ethics

This culture is sort of antithetical in everything it says to the kids. I don't want to pick on 'Jersey Shore,' but it's pretty clear. I would tell the kids good behavior and hard work will pay off, and then they go home and watch TV and go, 'Oh, that's not true.'

Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

I am one who shows great respect and commends the Cuban people for having the guts to go over to Cuba to get Cubans out when they had the opportunity to do it. I think it's a... shame that the Jews here in the United States in the 1930s didn't do the same for other Jews who were also in trouble.

I still think that if one of Jim's masterpieces were downgraded to sell crap, I would get sick.

Jimmy Carter was unquestionably the most moral president of my lifetime, but he wasn't much of a president.

I've done jobs where I thought, 'I don't want to be that kind of actor; I don't want to work on something with people who don't have the same kind of goal as I do.'

You can't equate me with Joe Jackson. I've never hit my kid, I'm educated, I understand the business world.

I'm not Joe Paterno. Somebody didn't come and tell me Bernie Fine did something and I'm hiding it.

I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.

Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.

It is greed or financial difficulty that makes people fix matches, not gaining an edge over rivals, so it is different from say Lance Armstrong or Ben Johnson.

We will not join hands with the Congress in any circumstance, because they are corrupt.

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt.

I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.

All is lost save honor.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

sejarah menjadikan orang bijaksana, puisi menjadikan orang fasih lidah, matematika menjadikan orang cerdik, filsafat menyebabkan orang berpikir dalam, moral menjadikan orang bersikap sungguh-sungguh, logika dan ilmu berpidato menjadikan orang berani mengeluarkan pendapat.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.