Quotes About Ethics

I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.

I think I've always used the whip in the correct way. I see marked horses every day, and it's not a pretty sight, but I've never marked a horse. Never.

Schools should bring back the whip.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

I have had an actor squeeze himself up against me during a shot in a song and whisper in my ear that he was so glad that I was in the film with him. When I threw him off me and refused to speak to him again, he made my experience miserable.

With true free speech has to come an understanding of when and when not to use it. But you can't legislate that. It must be voluntary - especially in a world where a whisper can reach a million people in an eye blink.

After the whistle, during the whistle. Guys try to sneak stuff in. I just have to be uncompliant with stuff like that. Guys feel they can get away with stuff. I have to just try to not get back at him but make sure I finish through him during the whistle and not do anything that can jeopardize the team or that series of downs.

I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.

Every time you blow the whistle, half the people are going to be mad at you.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Medical ethics is a fascinating discipline, as it deals with issues replete with complex philosophical, moral, and ethical considerations that are rarely black or white.

Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.

Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray.

The world of superheroes is black and white; the world of monsters is not. Sometimes you need evil to fight evil.

How can Bono, having graced concert stages for over two decades, draped in the white flag of peace and screaming 'No More War' at the top of his lungs contemplate praising and back slapping Tony Blair?

Whether it's created in a lab, written by a programmer, or lands on the White House lawn as a visitor from the stars, if it acts like a human being, it is a human being.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

Although the attorney general is a part of the president's team, you're really separate and apart. You have a special responsibility as the nation's chief law enforcement officer. There has to be a distance that you keep - between this department and the White House.

I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.

I'm not advocating not calling anything, but I think no-harm, no-foul is a pretty good rule.