Wladimir Klitschko Quotes

There are things you don't do in life. You don't tug on superman's cape.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.

Also, there is a way I like to lead my life, which would adhere to certain norms. Anything that goes beyond that is not my purview.

I don't ever cross the line. I step right up to it. I put my toes on the line, but I don't ever cross that line. There are some barriers you just don't cross - you don't talk about religion; you don't talk about race. Those are lines I will never cross.

We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.

One finds limits by pushing them.

I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

We [Druse] are a very conservative society, and we are especially sensitive to the issue of family honor. We are much more strict about this than other Muslims …. With us there is no compromise on this matter I would have preferred that her father had dealt with this matter differently, not by murder. But this woman broke the laws of our community, she crossed dangerous red lines, and she had to know that she would be punished for it

Ethics is a fluid term ...It's the standards by which a civilized society lives.

Americans use custom, more than written law, to enforce virtue

It's very much simpler to get rid of any written rule you choose than it is an item of customary morality... while laws are preserved on tablets of wood or stone, customary morality is engraved deep in our living souls

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences - isolation, ostracism, etc.

People are judgmental about sex, but everyone has their own moral code. So unless you are hurting people, who are we to say what's right?

There's definitely been times where there's stuff that I have not been comfortable with, and I've had to put my foot down.

I can sit down with my sisters, and they can talk about my body in a certain way, and I will laugh about it with them. That's such a comfortable and loving relationship. But if a stranger I meet in a party makes the same comment, depending on their tone, that's not okay.

There are certain things I would never write about - anything that's too distasteful. I think that you can withhold information.

I'm a flirt by nature, and I like flirting with that line of what's passable and what's not, and I genuinely don't believe that I cross it.

You can't come in and invade people's personal space because of free speech.

The morality we all grew up with and are accustomed to is what feels right.