Quotes About Ethics

I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success

In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end.

I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.

Now everybody has to work together. They are the fourth estate. Incredibly powerful.

My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice.

There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft.

If there's something good, then I'm going to want to work. If there's something that I feel like I'd be compromising myself on, then I'd pass.

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.

We have eco-friendly shrimp. We can make them; we have that technology. But we can never have an eco-friendly all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet. It doesn't work.

I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.

The real issue is, how much goodwill do you invest in the work? And goodwill is not something that we can buy with money. It's very hard to buy goodwill with money.

When Hillary Clinton tried to act holier than thou, it really doesn't work. It really doesn't.

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect.

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.