Quotes About Ethics

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

Automation is great for profits, but it's a real potential trouble area for society.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

I've seen other people getting into trouble for glamorising breaking the law.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

I haven't gotten in any trouble off the floor.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

Superstars come and go. I want to make sure I am always a producer's actor. I may be refused to be called a great actor but I have never troubled any of my producers in my life. Honesty always catches the camera, and that is what my strength is.

If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a 'black swan,' then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick that seems to have tarred the entire flock!

I remain troubled by the deliberate killing of civilians, whether by the United States or by its enemies.

People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets.

Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him.

The notion that we would market devices that would allow someone to place themselves beyond the law troubles me a lot.

We are appropriating cultures, lifestyles, and language irresponsibly and passing it off as authentic; that's what troubles me the most.

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?