Quotes About Ethics

The measure of a man is not what he does for wages but what he does with his free time.

No sin, no crime, then extinction not earned.

The way to get a babe to act in a blue movie is you offer her a million dollars. The way to get a dude is you just have to ask him.

In the movie where somebody is invisible all the sudden—you know, a nuclear radiation fluke or a mad scientist recipe—and you think, what would I do if I was invisible...? Like go into the guy's locker room at Gold's Gym or, better yet, the Oakland Raiders' locker room. Stuff like that. Scope things out. Go to Tiffany's and shoplift diamond tiaras and stuff.

The future is not a good place to start lying and cheating all over again.

Do something only for money, and you're less likely to do it for free

If there was a Hell, my mom said you'd go there for wearing fur coats or buying a cream rinse tested on baby rabbits by escaped Nazi scientists in France.

Peo­ple are look­ing for how to put ev­ery­thing to­geth­er. They need a uni­fied field the­ory that com­bines glam­our and ho­li­ness, fash­ion and spir­itu­al­ity. Peo­ple need to rec­on­cile be­ing good and be­ing good-?look­ing.

All humans search for either reasons to be good or excuses to be bad.

In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.

How do you live knowing your every cell and drop of blood are part of the big evil?

That might be the best any generation could achieve: to pioneer its own brand of corruption.

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

Like it or not, the road to Hell is paved with sustainable bamboo flooring.

A veces la muerte de una sola persona puede justificar la muerte de una cultura entera.

maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.

no, this wasn't about money. Not everything is about money

Think about the animals used in product testing. Think about the monkeys shot into space. Without their death, their pain, without their sacrifice, we would have nothing.

The thing about being cloned from all those shampoo commercials, well, that goes for me and Brandy Alexander, too. Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.

It's not a big deal [...]. We do it every day. Kill the unborn to save the elderly. [...] every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

Algunos actos son demasiado bajos hasta para tener nombre. Demasiado bajos para hablar de ellos.

Sie sind glücklich, wie Menschen glücklich sind, wenn sie Bücher verbrennen oder Könige enthaupten. Die sind rechtschaffen.

And I say, that's different. Humans are above animals. Animals were put on this planet to feed and serve humanity. Human beings are precious and intelligent and unique, and God gave the animals to us. They're our property. Of course you'd say that, Helen says, you're on the winning team.

At the store, they have one-hundred-percent-recycled toilet paper," Marla says. The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.