50 Movie Quotes about Ethics (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: Mar 23, 2026

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.

31 Talking about whose ox gets gored, figure this, fella gets in the habit of goring oxes, whets his appetite. He may come up north next and gore yours.

John Wayne as Davy Crockett in The Alamo (1960)

32 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

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

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

34 What right do you have to take a baby, and turn his life into some kind of mockery? Don't you ever feel guilty?

Natascha McElhone as Lauren Garland in The Truman Show

35 You're a monk. You know the rules. If you eat meat, it is a sin.

Sho Kosugi as Cho Osaki in Shaolin Temple Strikes Back (1981)

36 If a man does evil things, he'll get his due sooner or later.

Sho Kosugi as Cho Osaki in Shaolin Temple Strikes Back (1981)

37 Chinese kung fu values being open and above board, unlike Japanese who are ruthless and unscrupulous.

Quote from Return of the Bastard Swordsman

38 These people have no shame. They have to die!

Quote from Yoga and the Kung Fu Girl (1979)

39 The main thing is one should win. -Yes, I agree, but not by any means. That way is evil.

Quote from Heroes of the East (1978)

40 One has to pay in other ways than money. -What sort of ways, Sir Thomas? -I should fancy in remorse, in suffering, in... Well, in the consciousness of degradation.

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