Quotes About Ethics

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

You look at the part in '12 Years A Slave,' you finish that script - I mean, it's a powerful story. You go, 'Man, I have to play a bad character in this.' And then you go, 'Well, do I want to play a bad character and contribute to a good story?'

It's good, sound business to treat all the teachers fairly, and I think it's a good story to tell.

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well - it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.

There's a lot of faith expressed by scientists about science. It's kind of an act of faith that science is a good thing. We don't know that for sure. We may not know that millions of years from now.

Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.

I know I've done good things, I know I've done bad things.

No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.

Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.

It is always better to tax bad things than good things.

I don't think we should ever compensate players. I think we can do as much as we can for players. The cost of attendance is good. They get more meals now so they can keep their meal money. I think those are all good things and I think more of those things should have been done. But I don't think you can compensate players straight out.

There is no good time to break the law.

You have to be sensible and grownup and conduct yourself in the right way. I'm 36, this is my 20th season as a professional, I know what you can and can't do, when's a good time to have a drink and when's a bad time.

You show your character through the good times and the bad times and for me it's just about being professional.

In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything.

For me, doing good work is important.

La ragion di Stato non si è mai curata di gettare una graziosa volta fra causa ed effetto. La coscienza del mondo, tanto più pigra a pensare quanto più carica di rimorsi, la stampa dei gruppi momentaneamente al potere e il cervello dei suoi lettori castrato da essa, hanno sempre girato e capito la cosa solo come occorreva a loro

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

Ogni cosa a questo mondo è innanzi tutto una questione morale e solo molto più tardi una questione politica.»

this final and long longed-for job: to be unhappy without doing evil.

natural right of the individual to personal freedom overrode man-made laws.

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. My toast would be, may our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise always right. I disclaim as unsound all patriotism incompatible with the principles of eternal justice.

But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.

The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.