Pete Gallego Quotes

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

Unfortunately, this country requires body bags before it will act...

We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we could have prevented.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave like one. It's a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.

Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.

Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.