Quotes About Ethics

If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

Whether or not anyone could have done it is not what's important. What is important is whether or not anyone would have done it.

People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

Y a-t-il plus belle parodie de l'éthique de la valeur que de se soumettre avec toute l'intransigeance de la vertu aux données du hasard ou à l'absurdité d'une règle?

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe.

Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

What e'er thou art, act well thy part.

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.

Gathering your own reference materials, sketches and using your own imagination is going to help you grow as an artist far more than stealing someone else's work.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.

Right attitudes produces right action

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.

No amount of talents, skills or charisma can sustain us the way integrity, character & attitude does.