Quotes About Ethics

I think the comments about me being a shill for leadership are beyond the pale.

I've never bribed my way into a restaurant. I've never slipped a C-note or greased a palm. In truth, I've never even considered it. I've assumed, of course, that people do such things.

In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

The paparazzi do what they do, man. They have a job, too.

I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.

I think a lot about something: Abe Rosenthal was once asked what he wanted on his headstone, and he said he wanted it just to say, 'He kept the paper straight.' And I think about that a lot.

Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.

Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.

We do not want to go to the U.K. and take something from them. We do not want to be parasites. We want to work there, and I think that Hungarians are working well.

When you look at the Nixon pardon, the short-term gain would have been never to pardon him.

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

Our father always made us work. I think that's the greatest thing a parent could ever do.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

I don't advocate any child following in their parent's footsteps when their parent's footsteps are as crooked as mine are.

In many ways, I don't think journalism is any different from banking. And I don't think that banking is any different from parenting.

Don't tell me that Colonel Parker or Brian Epstein didn't tell a little lie from time to time.

Is there some reason why the quality of people going into the parliament is not as high? I don't know the complete answer, but I think - in fact, I'm sure - that part of it is the increasing intrusiveness of the media - the general media and social media - into the private lives of politicians and their families.

Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it's not a good idea to bring them into the world.

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

The TMPG is the place where market participants recognize and address their responsibilities to each other.