Quotes About Ethics

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

I lie, I cheat, and I steal.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.

I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma.

I'm not a religious person in the regular sense, but in the Bible you're not allowed to steal, you're not allowed to lie and you're not allowed to feel you're above other people.

We had a field day before anyone knew anything about shorting. It was almost a license to steal. Nowadays, it's a license to get hosed.

If you want to steal, steal a little cleverly, in a nice way. Only if you steal so much as to become rich overnight, you will be caught.

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.

I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one - you don't abuse a policeman, and two - you don't steal things.

I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.

If you want something, and you want it, you shouldn't just go and steal it.

You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.

There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

Xi agreed to the American definition of legitimate espionage. In other words, you don't use the power of the state to steal secrets for profit.

If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account.

We need to be held to a higher standard because digital currency is so new and interesting and powerful that it is attractive to a lot of people out there to try to steal it.

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.

If you don't hurt anybody or try to steal anything, you'll be fine in the South.

I don't steal things. I'm rich.