Quotes About Ethics

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

The truth is that humans have the potential to be horrific. And I think being conscious of that is important.

The painful truth is that in its attempt to remain 'morally neutral,' Hollywood is causing us to raise a nation of cads and harlots... Thanks again, Sean Penn!

The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.

People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking.

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.

You must tell the truth. You must be truthful to yourself and the values of the game that got you there.

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

I think I was about 16 when I first figured I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be a fighter pilot before that, but then I thought I don't want to kill people so that ruled that out.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.

In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.

The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.