Quotes About Ethics

Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

See, my relationship with Salman is of mutual love. But just because he is a good friend of mine, I wouldn't want to use him for a cameo in my film or ask him to endorse my film. That is not me.

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

If I fought like I was looking for a place in history, it would ruin me as a person. I don't think history is worth selling my soul.

I'm not a big fan of the WWE coming over into our sport and everyone making a show of themselves. It's not that, it doesn't bother me, its good for some guys, but that's just me, its not my personality, I told myself a long time ago I'm not gonna sell myself out, I'm not gonna sell my soul to be something I'm not.

The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself.

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.

It's naive of anyone to think there is no corruption in football because it's everywhere.

Being a president is an impossible job - it's naive to think someone can do the job and not bend the law here and there.

The term 'sell out' is juvenile and naive.

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.

Show me a better man. Name one and I am answered; but do not point, as a disqualification, to the very facts which make this man fit beyond all others.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

I think it's really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.

If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you.

I was like: the narrative should be that the work that we did was never paid for so Leave.E.U., by not registering that we did that work, are the ones that should be in trouble.

We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.

Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.

I think you can be in disagreement with a president you support without being disrespectful or nasty or snide.

I think the United States has a nasty human-rights record.