Quotes About Ethics

I don't like to see any sucker punches. I do think, in the heat of battle, if you're getting hit on the hip with 98, then you should be able to go out and see somebody.

If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

You don't play eight years and all of a sudden let your game go down just for a trade.

Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to me - like a dead creature. In a flash, I realized that every time I ate any kind of meat, something had been killed for me, and I stopped eating all animals, not just cows and pigs but chickens and fish.

As a lawyer who has dealt in defamation, I know that someone's reputation has to be lowered in the eyes of right-thinking people to sue.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

You're not free if you can't sue a financial institution that gets caught ripping you off.

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?

If I get sued for keeping people safe and getting people in from the cold because they were endangering themselves, then so be it.

I'd like to see people get sued if they wrote a bad review of my movie. If you can't say something nice, you shouldn't say anything at all.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic oath.

The man who does ill must suffer ill.

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we are overlooking is the fact that nonhuman animals are conscious beings, that they can suffer.

Animals shouldn't suffer for the sake of beauty.

I don't care who you are, if you don't stand opposed to immoral issues, then you will suffer.