Quotes About Ethics

Purposefully exposing young people to increased risks of major brain problems - even death - for sport is surely even more ethically complicated than sending young people into this same neurological danger zone as soldiers.

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.

My so-called 'reservations' and personal comfort zones can't define my work. That's not being professional. I feel that even if an actor is cast for the lead role or for any other part in the film, it is his job to do the film and not create an issue.

Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.

Here is where you get into the danger zone, when the government official starts talking about U.S. government business and then also talking about what personal business favors they might want. And when the conversation goes down that road, it does risk crossing the line into solicitation of a bribe.

It makes you feel good, doing the right thing and getting in the end zone.

I have a complicated relationship with the zoo; maybe everyone does. It's so wonderful and so sad.

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild.

What you do in Oklahoma with tigers in these roadside zoos would be frowned on if it opened in the L.A. basin or New York. I think it's a lack of education. And people believe we should be able to have a tiger, because this is America - who should stop us?

Yosemite Valley is like a tourist zoo. It's shameful.

I've never really been able to tolerate zoos.

We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to do but wait for the next meal. Circuses are even worse places for animals. Their living conditions are deplorable, especially in travelling circuses where cages have to be small so that they can go on the road.

I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with respect seems the least we could do, and with 'we' I mean not just zoo staff, but most certainly also the public.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.

Right action is the key to good living.

He will hew the line of right, let the chips fall where they may.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.

Doing what is right isn't the problem; it's knowing what is right.

Do well and right, and let the world sink.