Quotes about Ethical Scrutiny

lo que se hace por humanidad es a veces cruelmente juzgado por la ley.

Corruption should be investigated. I wont be First!

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie. (There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.)

Certainly, in the spring of 2013 I hadn't fucked up as many gay lives as Bill Clinton had.

If people want to legalize a particular relationship, we need to be careful if that kind of relationship has been disapproved for millennia.

There are some things about Trump's foundation and charity that I really want to know. I worry there may not be enough time to figure it all out.

Some of the most impressive judicial nominees are grossly mistreated.

It was one of those moments when the moral high ground opens and swallows you up.

Memorably, he said, "I had rather have live vermin on my back than the tongue of one of these Washington women on my reputation.

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.

The reason things unacceptable in life are acceptable in fiction is because fiction is often the only way we can comfortably examine the morally obscene. For

If we objectively balance the good things Ali did against the bad, there's no question he's ultimately heroic. But that's not the issue. The issue is that these kinds of questions are never weighed objectively. That's not how the court of public opinion operates.

You know you're a Puritan when you feel that even the Bible needs to be cleaned up.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.

Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

What's interesting to Hal Incandenza about his take on Struck, sometimes Pemulis, Evan Ingersoll, et al. is that congenital plagiarists put so much more work into camouflaging their plagiarism than it would take just to write up an assignment from conceptual scratch. It usually seems like plagiarists aren't lazy so much as kind of navigationally insecure. They have trouble navigating without a detailed map's assurance that somebody has been this way before them.

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

I don't necessarily admire whom and what you choose to read and the gullibility with which you take at face value rationalist blasphemies spouted by an immoralist of the ilk of Bertrand Russell, four times married, a blatant adulterer, an advocate of free love, a self-confessed socialist dismissed from his university position for his antiwar campaigning during the First War and imprisoned for that by the British authorities.

Each must watch over his own conscience, and therefore each must have the right to judge spirits and prophets; but no one has the right to take the sword for himself.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.