Quotes About Ethics

The end of education is character

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

It's much juicier to play somebody a little more evil than Dudley Do-Right.

I don't know how to play evil.

I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.

Nobody wants the armed forces to be somehow above the law, or exempt from it.

War is not an academic exercise.

Better not to exist than live basely.

How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.

One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.

Wearing shoes, clothes, and other accessories made out of exotic skin is as cold-blooded as it gets.

It is easy for people to sit behind their laptops and assassinate somebody's character.

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

Sergei Magnitsky was murdered as my proxy. If Sergei had not been my lawyer, he would still be alive today.

I'm a lawyer. The right to life is important.

We, as lawyers, must point out that unrestrained power is almost always abusive.

Lawyers are for only what is right.

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

On the court as well as off the court, I'm going to do everything that's right and try to lead by example.

Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

I want to emphasize that character in our leaders does matter.

I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of.

I do not believe that we should create an atheist culture - I think it leads to debauchery, and I think it leads to a spiritual poverty within the soul.