Quotes About Ethics

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

There are no black and white, good or bad characters in 'Game Of Thrones,' but Joffrey was an exception. Just pure evil.

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

I don't believe that pure evil exists, personally.

And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check, have everything going for them that you would like to have.

There's nothing pure about capitalism.

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.

I don't think anyone is purely evil or purely brilliant, certainly for Prince Charles.

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted.

'No means no' is puritanism.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

We have been reformulating anything that had carmine in the past, and if we can't reformulate, we just throw them out. I can live without a purple eye shadow. It's fine.

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.