Quotes About Ethics

What passes for sports coverage is terribly sycophantic.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I?

I have never used my family name to 'cash-in.' Unfortunately, such ridiculous charges come with the territory of coming from a famous and public family.

There is no good terror and bad terror. Terror is terror. There's not terror that you can accept and terror that you cannot accept. Terror is terror. Murder is murder.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

The war waged against terror since September 11 puts a strain on democracy itself, because it is mostly waged in secret, using means that are at the edge of both law and morality. Yet democracies have shown themselves capable of keeping the secret exercise of power under control.

Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?

Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'

Whistle-blowing and publishing should not be seen as a crime, and certainly not as terrorism.

It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.

Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism.

Can a nation use the methods of terrorism? Can it harm innocent civilians in the process? What are the costs? Where is the line?

There is no difference, where aims are concerned, between a terrorist with a gun and bomb in his hand and a terrorist who has dollars, euros, and interest rates.

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

Every terrorist should know before they hurt a Jew that his family will also be hurt.

It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.