Quotes About Ethics

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it's pleasurable because it's self-righteous.

The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.

In life, you have to keep certain parts of yourself in check because you want to be a decent human being. But one of the guilty pleasures of acting is that sometimes you get to let a little something out that you don't in life because it's not right.

If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.

There're plenty of good people in football - mostly players and managers.

Journalism is a messy business. For every prize-winning story there's plenty of gossip and garbage.

Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

If you only vote with your back pocket in mind or your own best interest in mind, I believe, it is my belief that's a terrible, terrible way of thinking.

We don't take Sweet'n Lows from restaurants anymore. I don't stuff dinner rolls into my pocketbook.

There is a huge market for products and services aimed at what I like to call the Pocketbook Environmentalist: a shopper who's savvy enough to know things don't necessarily have to cost more just because they're good for the environment.

It is clear that there has been money, but it has gone to line the pockets of the corrupt.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.

I'm always curious how we sometimes have a different point of view when it comes to justice. And that's why people root for 'Dexter.'

I didn't want my genome to be sequenced by any of the companies that were out there doing the partial sequences just from the point of view of commercialisation.

Because I'm a dramatist, I'm allowed to take liberties, but I want my films to be based in truth, and it's very important to me that the community we're focusing on is happy with the film. From an ethical point of view, that's everything.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments.

Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

I think it's a completely good thing to want to do business, to want to make money and be a success in the marketplace, to get the attention of customers. I'm not in the business of pointing fingers or blaming companies, but there is a limit to everything.

I'm a firm believer in karma. By doing good, good things eventually find you. I don't have an American Express Black Card, but I like to think that I would if I could fill it with karma points.