47 Movie Quotes about Ethics (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Sep 24, 2025

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

21 Clothes, travel, expensive excitement. What's wrong with that? -Nothing, if you don't care where his money comes from.

Gloria Grahame as Debby Marsh; Glenn Ford as Dave Bannion in The Big Heat (1953)

22 When a man becomes weak enough to accept a bribe, he's already a dying man.

Rita Hayworth as Gilda Mundson in Gilda (1946)

23 But skill is not so important. What counts is the morality behind the skill. You agree?

Quote from Heroes of the East (1978)

24 I like persons better than principles and persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

25 There's no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral. -Why? -Because the aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

26 When we're happy, we're always good. When we're good, we're not always happy.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

27 You know, I even imagined that some day someone might try to bribe me with a small fortune. -Now, what did you do? -I was tempted. -That's a good start. -But I said no.

Joanna Lumley as Marie Jouvet in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

28 George, all I ask is that you look around and see what your job is making you do. No job is worth destroying the lives of innocent creatures. See for yourself.

Penny Singleton as Jane Jetson in Jetsons: The Movie (1990)

29 But in this case, I feel like I betrayed my own code of ethics, and for that, sugar, I apologize.

Michael Jai White as Black Dynamite in Black Dynamite

30 Dennis, don't! That's not an ethical thing to do.

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

47 Movie Quotes about Ethics (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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