Gary Oldman Quotes

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong. That's how I live my life.

My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

I have my own rules and adhere to them. The rule is simple but inflexible. A James Stewart picture must have two vital ingredients. It will be clean and it will involve the triumph of the underdog over the bully.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.

I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to act, but I went at it and did what I thought fit. I have often reproached myself for my want of principle.

The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

A different vision of ethics is that of a collection of resources people can use to act better. The resources might be firm rules that could always be relied on. Or they might be ideals that could often be followed without thinking but that sometimes conflicted with one another.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.