Quotes About Ethics

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. If you can't get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn't be hunting. You are an embarrassment.

Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal.

I did face the casting couch when I had gone to sign a film; but I don't want to name the person. Most people in the film industry are like that. But thankfully, the television industry has been spared of it.

Thankfully, the time where you buy and sell other countries and populations is over.

Thanks for the information about what we call business.

I don't believe in a personal god. It's good to give thanks, whether or not there's a god. There's no reason not to live life to the fullest. Morality is all the more important for people who don't expect to get a piece of celestial candy after they die.

Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.

If you can prove a guy did cheat, then I don't believe he belongs. I don't believe that there are any guys that did cheat, in that respect, that are in the Hall of Fame. So I think opening up the doors to guys that admittedly cheated or are proven that they did cheat, it kills the integrity of what the Hall of Fame stands for.

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

The first thing you have to do is to sequence the Neanderthal genome, and that has actually been done. The next step would be to chop this genome up into, say, 10,000 chunks and then... assemble all the chunks in a human stem cell, which would enable you to finally create a Neanderthal clone.

I wanted to do something heroic if I was going to be on TV. And the first thing that appeals to me once I have decided I don't want to be the bad guy is to find things that are not black and white.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

In our digital age, the Golden Rule is not enforced online.