Quotes About Ethics

Unkindness is quite a major sin.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.

The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him.

In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind what they're doing. You're entitled to lie because the end justifies the means.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress.

It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.

I don't think that women should be punished as Donald Trump said they should, for making the decision to have an abortion.

All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.