Quotes About Ethics

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

I'm not doing my philanthropic work out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

I work hard, like I'm sure everyone else does, and I'm very honest with the work I do.

Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.

My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

Work, which is considered an expression of a person's value, also becomes a part of one's spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good

That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

I have spoken with people at the highest level of intelligence. And I asked them the question, "Does it work? Does torture work?" And the answer was, "Yes, absolutely."

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

Make lots of money. Enjoy the work. Operate within the law. Choose any two of three