Quotes About Ethics

The swamp is a business model. It's a successful business model.

To me, draining the swamp means draining it of pandering and opportunism and filling it in with the fertile soil of freedom.

Donald Trump is the swamp.

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.

I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

I don't smoke, drink, do drugs or even have affairs. If I don't even swear, I should be put in a shrine and sanctified.

It's a sin to swear.

There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.

The odd swear word doesn't harm anyone, does it?

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

I was brought up in the Boys' Brigade and grew up not swearing. It's so lovely to behave decently, civilly.

The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing.

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making laws about swearing. We should trust people's own instincts about what is appropriate in any given situation.

I'll sweep the floors. I've picked up napkins in the men's room. I'm not above anything.

Be sweet, be good, and honest always.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

You hear a lot of songs that are about people cheating or about infidelity. I haven't really heard one before about connecting with the noble part of yourself. I know it sounds a little bit cheesy, but that's the real deal. There are a lot of people who are making a genuinely good, sweet decision on a daily basis.

It's not all 'Jane Eyre' out there. In her sweet, honorable, slightly passive-aggressive way, Jane was as perfect as a protagonist can get while remaining interesting; in fact, she's one of my favorites. But most characters are more morally ambiguous.

Surprisingly, no one has ever given me double-meaning dialogues or asked me to wear clothes I am not comfortable in. Everyone has been extremely sweet with me.

We never tell countries that they should have a particular number in terms of a tax number, you know, if countries can make do with whatever average tax they have. The question is, do they apply it to everybody? Or do they give sweetheart deals to some companies?

To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.

We are neither prepared to deal with dubious companies nor have the mechanism for swift investigation. What's more we don't even have a culture, which imposes stringent, debilitating and deterrent punishment on wrong doers.