Quotes About Ethics

No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.

There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.

I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

It's a bad place when you see sometimes how coaches treat people. I don't even want to say players. I want to say people. They're people before they become a player.

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!

I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want.

And I told you, I'm not going to pursue another man's girlfriend. You want to talk honor. There it is in its purest form

Don't look over your shoulder and don't use or abuse others to get ahead. Keep your eyes focused on your goals and keep working for what you believe in and what you want to accomplish.

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.