Quotes About Ethics

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

You can't cuss on TV. It does hurt your brand if you do stuff like that. That's not what blue chip sponsors are looking for.

I genuinely only want to work with people that I agree with on certain things. There were many sponsors I didn't want to work with because I didn't agree with their messages that they wanted to use me to convey.

No one wants to be the creator with the reputation for bad mouthing sponsors!

Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no money. Where there is no money, there are no officials with fingers in the pot. The lesson to be learnt from this is simple. If we want honest sport, we have to stop watching it.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.

When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.

Sport is dirty if you want to win, but I am not a dirty player.

Sometimes people think that if you're always helping people up and never hit someone with a hard foul, you're automatically a good sport. I don't believe that.

I was a huge boxing fan, but it's a sport where the guys punch each other in the head. I thought maybe I shouldn't be a fan of that anymore. Maybe I shouldn't allow myself to cheer a sport where the head injuries are a big part of it.

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

Guys like Josh Gordon need to stay in his sport and mind his own business.

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.

That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.