Quotes About Ethics

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

We rappers are role models.

The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.

The greatest art is philosophy.

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

Teach the art of living well.

Art is seduction, not rape.

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.