Quotes About Ethics

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

As sensors and networks continue to expand around the world, we'll see violence drop even further. After all, when there's a danger that your actions can be caught on tape and shown around the world, you're more responsible for your behavior.

The use of violence by individuals... is not a position that I support or would ever want to be in again.

There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself.

No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.

Domestic violence is never okay no matter what the situation is.

I've never been jailed for a crime of violence.

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

I have problems with the violence and the torture on '24.' What I'm trying to say is that that's not the only story, and I think that the cognitive complexity is as important.

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

You have to talk about 'The Terminator' if you're talking about artificial intelligence. I actually think that that's way off. I don't think that an artificially intelligent system that has superhuman intelligence will be violent. I do think that it will disrupt our culture.

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.