Quotes About Ethics

But it wasn't really scandals Miss Marple wanted. Nothing to get your teeth into in scandals nowadays. Just men and women changing partners, and calling attention to it, instead of trying decently to hush it up and be properly ashamed of themselves.

A good conscience makes a sound sleeper

A rich man and his money are not so easily parted. Me, I have seen a well-known millionaire turn out a tramful of people to seek for a dropped halfpenny.

You and I have a principle in common. We do not approve of murder.

suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you—even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?" Poirot said steadily: "Yes, Mademoiselle. I believe it is the unforgivable offence—to kill.

A man is responsible for his deeds, and not just the deeds, but for the consequences of those deeds, as well.

You shouldn't shoot people," said Lord Caterham in a tone of mild remonstrance. "You shouldn't really. I daresay some of them richly deserve it—but all the same it will lead to trouble.

From what you read and hear nowadays, it seems that murder under certain aspects is slowly but surely being made acceptable to a large section of the community." She

they are only full of pity for the young killer, because of his youth. Why should they not execute him? We have taken the lives of wolves, in this country; we didn't try to teach the wolf to lie down with the lamb–I doubt really if we could have. We hunted down the wild boar in the mountains before he came down and killed the children by the brook. Those were our enemies–and we destroyed them. What

I wanted to kill... yes, I wanted to kill. But- incongruous as it may seem to some- I was retrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

O que importa para você é o ensino e o lado ético. Sua visão está certa. Mas, se quiser fazer sucesso com qualquer coisa, sabe, terá que ser boa empresária também. Ideias são como qualquer outra coisa: precisam ser vendidas.

People are like that—not quite bad or quite good. I don't suppose I'm particularly straight myself—I have been because there hasn't been any temptation to be otherwise. But what I have got is plenty of courage and I'm loyal!

She went on broodingly: "It's so dreadfully easy—killing people. And you begin to feel that it doesn't matter . . . that it's only you that matters! It's dangerous—that.

My husband's a very good man," she said. "Besides being the vicar, I mean. And that makes things difficult sometimes. Good people, you see, don't really understand evil." She paused and then said with a kind of brisk efficiency, "I think it had better be me.

I wonder, Miss Marple," I said suddenly, "if you were to commit a murder whether you would ever be found out." "What a terrible idea," said Miss Marple, shocked. "I hope I could never do such a wicked thing.

Look here, Iris, you're in a tight place. But apart from anything else, there's such a thing as TRUTH. You can't play safe and take care of your own skin when it's a question of justice.

I am not concerned with nations, Monsieur. I am concerned with the lives of private individuals who have the right not to have their lives taken from them.

have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience.

Oh, yes, Madame. I have known of—shall we say A?—being removed by B solely in order to benefit C. Political murders often come under the same heading. Someone is considered to be harmful to civilization and is removed on that account. Such people forget that life and death are the affair of the good God.

I make a good income and I only kill a reasonable number of my patients. How's that?

I'm afraid it hasn't occurred to me to have scruples" said Katherine

Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law.

Chi è molto buono con gli altri sa anche essere molto crudele.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.