Quotes About Ethics

I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.

The thing is, I never see my characters as psychopaths. I see them as really crippled victims who just happen to do bad things. And I never see them as bad guys; I see them as darker characters. I never see anything as good or bad; it's more light or dark, and the in-between is the grey.

I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences.

Increasing the sale of liquor may benefit the government in terms of revenue. But liquor is a social evil, and its biggest victims are women and their children.

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

There are no moral victories.

I'm not into moral victories.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

I do not pilfer victory.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

I have never cheated anybody out of a victory, I have worked hard for every single race that I have won.

Large elements in Congress and the public were willing to fight for victory but wanted to be very sure that the struggle was not contaminated by any moral principles.

I loved 'Casablanca.' You know, right vs. wrong. I think I like a movie where there is a victory, right over wrong, but there's always some price to be paid.

When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary.

I'm not changing any of my opinions or what I'm saying about a product in a video based on my relationship with the company... When they release a product, my job is to be honest and deliver what people want to see and what people need to hear.

The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.

It is just completely disgraceful that someone can go to the extent of morphing my face onto someone else's body to create a sensational video.

When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.

As for the claim that drone 'pilots' are not engaged in the extinguishing of human life via video games, the military's own term for its drone kills - 'bug splat,' which happens to be the name of a children's video game - and other evidence negates that.

Now if you play video games all the time and you're a real gamer, you're not going to use the Game Genie, you're not going to use the codes.

I don't believe that playing video games in the locker room is part of earning the right to win.

I think that now that we are seeing multimedia types of productions with videos and pictures and human beings performing the acts that animals used to perform, such as in Cirque du Soleil and other traveling troops, there is no need to parade animals around anymore in cages for personal gratification.

Two things - one is obvious: always keep making. The second thing, with regard to music videos specifically - the music video industry can be a place that takes advantage of young freelancers and filmmakers. Make sure you're making stuff that you're proud of and you can get behind.