Quotes About Ethics

A Brexit Britain that will navigate its way in the world without a moral compass.

I actually think it's very important that the Navy SEAL community stay out of politics.

I'm nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.

I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

You may have the might, but that does not necessarily make you right.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

Kissing a new hero isn't acceptable to me, especially when it's not necessary.

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

Never make a joke or try for humor at someone else's expense. In a high-stakes environment, everyone needs to feel safe.

I don't want to live in a country where the elites like Hillary Clinton do not live under the same laws as the rest of us. She needs to be held to account.

The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.

I think every religion is founded with good intentions, but with any good thing, there's a negative use for it.

I am not an actor who enjoys negative comments on other heroes.

I hate negative ads in general.

I think we should all have a responsibility not to affect other people in a negative way.

If you keep a clean heart with your money, you will have a clean karmic cycle, but the day you do something negative to another person, that karmic circle will start to bring you down.