Quotes About Ethics

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

None of us believes in an untrammelled right to free speech. We all agree there are always going to be lines that, for the purposes of law and order, cannot be crossed; or for the purposes of taste and decency, should not be crossed. We differ only on where those lines should be drawn.

In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.

There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.

Ask where your meat and fish come from. Organic and free-range is a little bit more expensive, but if you can afford it, you will taste the difference.

People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.

I famously tasted shark fin soup many, many years ago before we understood exactly what was going on with the harvesting of sharks. I've consequently come out against it. I make personal choices in my life and stand behind them.

I don't know what Galliano was thinking. Apparently he dressed people as homeless and sent them down the runway. That's not very tasteful and somewhat exploitive.

You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

I have a tattoo on my arm that says, 'Would you be proud to die this way?' And that's my reminder to continue to treat people well and love people, and if I took my last breath right now, would I be happy with who I am?

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

We are inflicting opinion in our newscasts like never before. That was never done and never taught in our journalism classes.

I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don't mix.

One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.

Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.