Quotes About Ethics

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

As an advisor, I can say what I want. If I were a politician, I would constantly have to compromise, and I'm incapable of doing that.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.

The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability

I was never violent. I denounced even back then violence and left it because I didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint.

We're not in this for the fast money. Really, what we want is to be part of this industry.

Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.

I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.

I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to people who make millions by murdering other living creatures.

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future

If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.