Quotes About Ethics

It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it.

Corruption is a true enemy to development.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

All I can say is that I played the game in true spirit.

If a film is based on a true story and you don't use anyone's name, you can do what you like.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.

If you are an educated man, you respect your opponent, his team, and all those people around; then you are truly a human being.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

I'm always amazed at the way some actors' behaviour is truly disgusting. That's one thing that will never happen on one of my sets if I ever direct.

My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can't.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.