Quotes About Ethics

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

I love people and want to be good to people. If I'm in restaurant and somebody doesn't treat a waitress right, I literally will leave. I will unfriend you. You are not my friend anymore.

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

I don't think most people would want me to have a business relationship as a senator where my business partners can reap the benefit of my position and I one day get the share the profits.

Justine," Zoe said, "I don't want to curse anyone." "Of course you don't, you're much too nice. But I don't have that problem.

I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.

Every President wants to do right.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.

I saw money change votes.I mean, they just seem unaware of this, that money is something - if they want to see the appearance of corruption, all they had to do was look in Las Vegas last weekend.

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.

I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to.

I could have said some things about Hillary Clinton that would have been unfortunate for her, too. But I don't want to interfere.

Look at Donald Trump: He loves to call out individual reporters by name, which leads to major problems in those reporters' lives. I certainly don't want to add to that myself.

The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them.

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.

If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it.