Quotes About Ethics

I have never stolen. I am not a thief.

I was an accomplished computer trespasser. I don't consider myself a thief.

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

Nobody has a right to call me or the prime minister a thief and a liar.

I'm a clean liver; I'm no thief. Kids go through phases of nicking stuff. I've nicked stuff - most people have - but I haven't nicked anything of significance.

Any thief or criminal or robber who enters another country in order to steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects a very narrow perception.

I was an accomplished computer trespasser. I don't consider myself a thief. I copied without permission.

Often, I'm sitting opposite a client, and I'm thinking, 'How do I convince him to not copy the best-selling product out there?' And sometimes I don't know. Really, it's smarter to be a thief.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

I will not only not steal, but I will run after thieves.

Thieves don't usually make good therapists.

To many in the global community, American business - especially our financial institutions - are seen as a bunch of thieves, and as the saying goes, 'There's no honor among thieves.'

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

It is difficult to portray grey characters because there is a very thin line between being nasty and slightly negative.

Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

I believe in doing the right things; that is my character and personality.

When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.

I think good things happen to good people.