Quotes About Ethics

People can take, take, take from you. There are people whose profession is to do that. It's entertainment at the cost of human lives.

Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences.

Politics, I love. It's a noble profession.

Here in America, people are very professional.

I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.

'Justice' actually means different things to different people.

Ball-tampering has happened before. Bowlers and fielders have found different ways to get the ball roughened up on one side.

Everyone in sport loves winning - that's why we get involved - but there are different ways to win.

Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

A lot of times, you had to beat the bullies at their own game. But the difficulty is not becoming the bully yourself.

The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.

I want to work in films but without compromising on my dignity.

I've always said when age or infirmity gets the better of me, I'm off to whichever civilised country lets the elderly die with dignity.

I can never go back to a workspace where there's no dignity.

Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.'

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

What I'm saying is it is our responsibility to exercise due diligence, to ask the tough questions, to get the evidence before we make those very costly decisions about how and when and where our military is used.

Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime a dozen.

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

We raised $10 million in 2011. Our rule was, we wouldn't accept money from anybody we didn't want to have dinner with.

Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.

I am well aware of it myself that I have to be careful. But I want to make it clear that I am not a dirty player.

Playing dirty has never been part of my game.