Quotes About Ethics

Just because you can, doesnt mean you should- Ash

I'd like to see one of those classroom cops stay objective when they find a kid's blood splattered all over the sidewalk in front of her own house. It never gets any easier, does it?" "I don't think it's supposed to," Walker said. "If we get used to it, we're as bad as they are.

War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.

Act'. How many good people do you really know? I discount those who mouth out platitudes for the edification of the young, and who truly are 'good', whatever that means? What a strange subject, and from such a strange person!Everyone I know is a mixture, some with more good than bad, and it varies on different days

If the Prodigy Mozart had any notion how much torment he might cause people who had done no harm to him, he surely would have confined himself to stickball with his friends." "I believe that particular piece was

Is politics just another word for injustice?

spending so much time with people who are willing to lie, steal, or worse in order to get what they want that I start accepting that as the normal course of events.

Law enforcement all the way? It was that or become a criminal.

The satisfaction to Christian in withholding compassion from Caro had sprung directly from her need, her poverty.

How should you hope for mercy, rendering none?

We are all measured, good or evil, by the wrong we do to others;

Anything you raise by the way of spirits you have to put back yourself.

Some inner integrity had preserved their shop from being a shoppe.

In a word, do I have to tell you what sort of breed lawyers are?

I only wanted to be good—the trouble is that being good gets you nowhere.

We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.

Paul Martin took his marriage vows seriously. For instance, he would never have dreamed of dishonouring his wife by taking her and his mistress to the same restaurant. His marriage was one part of his life, his affairs were another.

It's indecent for anyone to be this happy, Tracy Whitney thought.

Each day it was getting more and more difficult for an honest man to make a living.

But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

We have learned, for example, that the more virtuous a man is the more severe is his super-ego, and that he blames himself for misfortunes for which he is clearly not responsible.

Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.

The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.