Quotes About Ethics

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Reasons are whores.

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

Every man is a hypocrite

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.

There are certain roles - say, terrorist roles - that if I don't feel like it's something truthful, I'm not going to do it.

You can't have experiments that aren't truthful. You can't lie about equations. Shouldn't be lying in football. That's a message that we should be teaching.

Wouldn't it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, 'Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub.'

I'm very true to the old punk ethics of honesty and truthfulness and integrity... and still be authentic.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

If I have been fortunate enough to have risen to a level in this business where people would actually listen to me, then I think I have a duty to convey all truths that I encounter.

Right and wrong are not relative terms. There are fundamental truths. Evil flourishes, but good men continue to battle it - and win.

Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.

A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.

You keep your eyes on the prize, you try to do what's right, and eventually, you'll reach your goal.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'

You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.

I can't solve the world's problems, can't even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.

I think regardless of what your religion is or what you believe, you try to treat people in a positive way, and that's all you can do in life.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Try to be a better person everyday.