Quotes About Ethics

The lawyer, tall and thin, had liberal opinions in place of talent.

The wife of a banker is always an honest woman, but the woman who sits at the cashier's desk cannot be one, unless her husband has a very large business and she does not live over his shop.

At all hours the financier is trampling on the living, the attorney on the dead, the pleader on the conscience. Forced to be speaking without a rest, they all substitute words for ideas, phrases for feelings, and their soul becomes a larynx.

Then, let every one question his conscience on this point, and search his memory if he has ever met a man who confined himself to the love of one woman only!

A virtuous woman has in her heart one fibre less or one fibre more than other women; she is either stupid or sublime.

If a man strike his mistress it is a self-inflicted wound; but if he strike his wife it is suicide!

The virtue of women is perhaps a question of temperament.

An honest woman is necessarily a married woman.

The heavy curtain of Bureaucracy was drawn between the right thing to be done and the right man to do it.

Especially not something like abandoning my professional standards, because that would throw the rest of my life out of balance.

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

Live as a villain, die as a hero

Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.

Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot

Remember – it's always easier to get forgiveness than permission

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to never committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we're told, this is the only way we can be sure.

Sometimes the right thing to do... is the wrong thing.

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

My main problem with cops is that they do what they're told. They say 'Sorry mate, I'm just doing my job' all the fucking time.

You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.