Quotes About Ethics

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.

It's un-American for anyone to be wishing harm upon our president.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

Any individual that would be running for office, if they would say something that crosses a line and, in the end, is so significant, so major, that you couldn't support them, I'd have to withdraw support from any individual, okay?

If I had it in my power to introduce a ban on women driving cars and to withdraw all their licences, I would do it without thinking twice.

Until fishing is properly regulated and contained, we should withdraw our consent. Save your plastic bags by all means, but if you really want to make a difference, stop eating fish.

There are certain things I would never write about - anything that's too distasteful. I think that you can withhold information.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

I did always say I wanted to infiltrate from within. That was always my reasoning behind going into partnership with a luxury group that uses a lot of leather in their products.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Everybody has a hero and a villain within themselves. So it depends upon you to be a hero or a villain. If you show humanity, it will give you satisfaction.

If you take a perfectly well-adjusted normal person of any age from anywhere in the country and stick them in L.A., within about a week I do believe that a lot of their values and morals will start to degrade.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.

The whole question of fiduciary responsibility is a very old concept. You could make a movie about someone making that rule at any point in history, and within a few months, it will turn out to be timely.

I think my biggest trait is to play extremely hard within the rules of the game.