Quotes About Ethics

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

I don't use the word 'lying' easily.

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

Lying is the rule, not the exception.

When winning is everything and everyone does whatever they need to win and to not lose, including lying, you have a world in which 'basic trust' is lost.

I'm not one for lying to children.

I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'

As far as what is the line between human and machine? That's a great question.

I'm so tired of cyberpunk that says using machines to make your life better makes you less human.

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'

Freedom of the press without responsibility is madness.

Anyone who's in the magazine business thinks about advertisers when they write about something. And anyone who says they don't is a liar.

I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.

Yes, green business is good business. But it's not just about making money. It's about being responsible.

Why would you be a sell-out for making money out of what you can do?

You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people.

To manage another country? No, I wouldn't. That's not something I would consider.

There are managers who always say what people want to hear. I think that's not good.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

I'm a process person. Process is a manifestation of values.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

I can't manipulate anybody's minds.

I always want to handle things in the right manner.

My parents brought me up to speak the way I speak, to hold my head up high, to know wrong from right and to have manners.