Quotes About Ethics

I'm not a cheat. I'm not a diver.

During my engineering days, I learnt to value diversity, not to take shortcuts in life.

Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

It makes me mad to see people in government serving themselves at our expense.

I like success, but I don't believe in it at the expense of other stuff. It's more important to stay in my skin.

Humanitarianism is commendable, but not when you're demanding that others share the burdens and expense.

Make up your mind what you want to do, and go and get it. Make sure it is not at the expense of anyone else, though.

To be in the right is often an expensive business.

It's more expensive for me to make my shoes. I don't use animal-based glues or fish-based glues. So that costs me more. And, you know, like anything in life - mass marketing of anything - mass manufacturing of anything costs less.

Yes, films need to make their money back - it's an expensive business, and people need to be paid for what's involved - but just because you can, it doesn't mean you should.

Have I got the right to experiment with my child's life?

It is one thing for an artist to experiment on a canvas, but it's entirely different to experiment on a living creature.

We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.

I have tended to speak out on the issues that are in the purview of my professional expertise - business ethics, corporate ethics, and government ethics.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

I'll stop when I think I'm not doing good stuff. I'll never exploit something just because people like it.

Say no to circuses that exploit and abuse animals.

People who exploit their power and abuse others need to be revealed.

Just based on my own family and background, I would not be in a film that would exploit or sensationalize anyone.

Certain people should not be allowed to exploit the law, to decide the only way to engage in politics is to accuse others of lying.

All art is exploitation.