47 Movie Quotes about Ethics (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 24, 2025

Memorable quotes about ethics, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 I should've learned Kung Fu instead of ethics. What use is that?

Quote from 36th Chamber of Shaolin

2 When were you born, son? Around the time of the Round Table? Haven't you heard? Conscience is dead.

Al Pacino as Lt. Col. Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman (1992)

3 No! I don't think you're an ethical person!

Anjanette Comer as Aimée Thanatogenos in The Loved One (1965)

4 You had a job that you thought made a difference, that you thought was honorable. And then you see this.

James Earl Jones as Admiral James Greer in Clear and Present Danger

5 Hey! Don't you have respect for law and order? What kind of thug are you?

Quote from The Mask (1994)

6 Do you have the slightest idea what a moral and ethical principal is? Do you?

Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in The Shining (1980)

7 It pains me deeply to think an element of suspicion should enter into our relationship. I deem it a slur, sir, on my personal integrity.

Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck in Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement

8 Ethics tells you what's right. -What use is that, when you're dealing with Manchu killers?

Quote from 36th Chamber of Shaolin

9 The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules or took a few liberties with our female party guests. We did.

Tim Matheson as Eric "Otter" Stratton in Animal House (1978)

10 Gentlemen, pain and torture are grim bedfellows.

Walter Pidgeon as Will Cantrell in Dark Command (1940)