Quotes About Ethics

I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations.

I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

We've always had a sadistic obsession with technology.

Obstruction of justice requires a corrupt intent.

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.

Obviously, we shouldn't be having any American officeholder or any American candidate looking for foreign nations to come in and be involved in U.S. elections.

Obviously you know match-fixing is out there but you don't really associate it with the English game.

Obviously everybody is accountable for their own actions, and everybody has to make judgments based on their own conscience as to whether or not they believe what they were doing is right or wrong.

Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right.

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

You chastise children when they are bad, as my parents did me. I'm not opposed to smacking. It is to be used occasionally.

Later, I found it too hard to give up, and so I've continued eating fish and other seafood, while trying to ensure it's sustainably sourced. This means I'm now one of those vegetarians I used to frown at - one who occasionally eats fish.

The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.

There are certain things that we can deal with by following the rules. But at times, we find the rules restrict you from doing the right things. On such occasions, we have to rethink - either you change the rules or break the rules.

Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs. Indeed the spark of humanity can maximize its essence by choosing an alternative that preserves the greatest dignity and some tranquility of mind.

You've seen too many movies. If you're holding a gun and you shoot a defenseless man, then you're a poor creature, a dastardly person. That's a perfectly ridiculous idea, you realize. The fact that you're holding the gun and the other man is not is no accident. It's a product of everything you've achieved, it assumes that if you're . . . you're aware enough, you have the gun when you need it.

I won't stay in with married men any more said the wise girl they're too agreeable, it's a little too much like curling up with the good book. You mean a good book Oh, dear, did I say the good book sighed the witch.

In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.

Sequestered in the depths of the average pacifist—as one will invariably discover—resides a killer. That is why the person has become a pacifist in the first place.

I always thought,' I said, 'that a man became a cop to be shielded from his own criminality.

This business of living for eternity certainly contributed to capital punishment, brutality, and war.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.