Quotes About Ethics

I think forgiveness is overrated, personally, because some things people do are unforgivable.

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.

I vaccinate my kids on most things, but then there are some things where I'm like, 'This may not work for me and my values and my family.'

There are some things about Trump's foundation and charity that I really want to know. I worry there may not be enough time to figure it all out.

There are just some things that I don't think jokes are good for.

I tend to think some things are off-limits. Not in the sense that you should not be able to say them, but you need some care about how and when you go into them. If you wanted to make a joke about concentration camps you should think twice. At least twice.

I've always done things according to my principles and morals and some things just don't fit in.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.

I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who had ethics.

If I had to live on a desert island, and somebody gave me a chicken, there's no way I'd kill it - I'd call it Henry and make it my friend.

I want to better myself with every film. My goal is to be at the highest level someday, and I know I will get there, too. I have strong work ethics.

If you see your company culture as a family, you don't want to fire someone just because their short-term performance is not good. If you do, even the people on your team who are excellent performers will look at what's going on and say, 'Someday you might fire me too.' You'll lose everyone's trust.

It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.

When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

If you have a sense that your money is somehow, even indirectly, contributing to a cause that you find morally problematic, then it seems somewhere between reasonable and obligatory for you to vote with your dollars.

There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

People think that it's ok to degenerate and disrespect someone just because they're in the public eye.

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.