Quotes About Ethics

The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't.

Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken.

A martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence.

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist

Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold.

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

What is art? Prostitution.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

Never depart from the way of martial arts.

I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.

I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.