Quotes About Ethics

It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good

Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

There are good characters and bad characters.

Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.

Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.

Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.

The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.

A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.

My goal is first of all to promote a public debate about where markets serve the public good and where they don't belong. That's my first goal.

I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court.

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

Not good vs evil. Only good vs evil is inside of you

One thing about Guantánamo, beyond anything else, is the commitment against all odds to allow Americans to view themselves as the good guy, no matter what the situation is.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.