Quotes About Ethics

I don't like when people talk trash and then they get the W after and they feel like they did something. I don't like that feeling.

Be responsible for what you do. Don't throw trash on the highway, take care of animals, if you see someone in need you help them. That's what I want people to concentrate on instead of just grabbing everything you possibly can for yourself, which is how we're taught in this country.

I never liked to say any trash talk about anyone, and I never go low on that level.

Trash my acting and my films. But don't gossip about my personal life.

I haven't done no trash talking. And, I don't do trash talking.

Abortion is a severely traumatic and potentially dangerous procedure.

We have long noted Pelosi's abuse of the perks of public office that granted her access to luxury military travel.

I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.

What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter's pellucid first novel, 'The Apartment,' it may be simply the length of a day - but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively.

It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread as lightly as possible in the world.

I won't eat anything I can't spell or wouldn't tread in.

Well, the problem is that when you mix discussion of official United States government business with discussion of your personal business, you can tread dangerously close to the bribery statutes.

Maximilien Robespierre

In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near the bottom, there is Treason.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

It is not a Pandora's box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose.

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

Since I was first nominated to serve as Treasury Secretary, I have been maligned as taking advantage of others' hardships in order to earn a buck. Nothing could be further from the truth.

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.

In the final forms of moral disengagement, wrongdoers treat adversaries as subhuman animalistic, demonic beings. Expunging any sense of shared humanity eliminates moral restraints.

I have resigned from the human race. Look at the way we treat animals.

People can't get their heads round the idea of a species surviving; you know, they're more concerned about how you treat a donkey in Sicily or something.

I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!