Quotes About Ethics

You never really said anything about what you Koreans believe in she said. Staying out of trouble, I said.

Twenty-five percent of the people polled in a recent national inquiry into American morality said that for $10 million they would abandon their entire family; a large number of people are evidently willing to do the same thing for free. Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

She's a whore, that one, Pam said.

Weird doesn't equal morally bankrupt.

I found it harder and harder to stick to what was right, when what was expedient made better sense.

I hated trying to figure out what was best morally, because so often that didn't jibe with my gut reaction.

Was this a bad thing for a Christian to be doing? Probably. On the other hand, it had never occurred to me to ask the Methodist minister if he had a ritual in place to sever a blood bond between a woman and a vampire.

A year ago it would have torn me up, leaving a body behind as we sped away along the interstate. Now I was just glad it was him and not me who was lying in the woods. I was a terrible Christian and a decent survivalist.

I don't have to take a stand by telling other people they're wrong," I'd protested. "What business is it of mine?" "If you love them, it's your business," he'd said firmly. "If their misbehavior is intruding on the happiness and well-being of others, it's your business.

If you look at 'Breaking Bad,' nothing lacks.

I have always been fascinated by the story of Henrietta Lacks.

Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in fiction is dangerous. It also lacks imagination.

When I was a lad, my parents and all their equivalents never lusted after other people's riches or success.

Let me make something clear: There are very few things Hollywood is right about. This is a very corrupt, elitist industry that breeds favoritism and fails people up the career ladder.

All of us... anyone that's been in Fleetwood Mac, as far as I've been aware, has been seemingly pretty well brought up by their parents: not goody two-shoes - God knows we weren't - but there was a level of civility that the lads in the band were aware of, what is over the brink of decency.

I'm not above the law. No one is. But we don't want to live in a society where Lady Justice has one eye open and winks at her friends and casts the evil eye at her adversaries. When will it stop?

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!

When I have actors flirting with me in acting, in my head, I am thinking, 'If I flirt back, I could definitely land a film with this guy. If I consider going to his house for drinks, considering he has invited me, I could definitely get a film with him.' But I just don't want to do that.

In GOP land, apologies and resignations are never enough.

I don't flirt and I don't play the people that I'm meeting with.

Would most politicians have gone to a meeting with someone advertised as being an agent of the Russian government?

I think that huge Christian institutions deal a lot with corruption. You see it happen with so many institutions. We've seen the questions with Catholicism, we've seen the questions with some other mega churches that really do exist.