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Quotes About Ethics

What I say is a gentleman's a gentleman even if he does drive a tractor.
~ Agatha Christie
The wish to kill and the action of killing are two different things.
~ Agatha Christie
Whatever people say, there is right, there is wrong. There is nothing in between.' - Hercule Poirot (Murder on the Orient Express)
~ Agatha Christie
Some people might have scrupulously removed themselves from earshot of a private conversation. But not Hercule Poirot. He had no scruples of that kind.
~ Agatha Christie
If all men were just, there would be no need of valor.
~ Agesilaus
It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad.
~ Agesilaus
We zullen de koe melken maar we zullen haar niet slachten.
~ Aharon Appelfeld
All people are innately good and forgiving but are situationally evil and relentless
~ Ahmed Korayem
Desperate times calls for more than simply desperate measures. It calls for putting one's values aside till the desperation subsides" --Mental Hell, Chapter 3
~ Ahmed Korayem
God has to pay a price for the monsters that we create" -Mental Hell
~ Ahmed Korayem
No vice is more irksome than that of voicing one's virtues
~ Ahmed Korayem
Sometimes one has to go against what is proper in order to do what is right
~ Ahmed Korayem
Start cutting corners on whatever it is you do and those corners will seek to get even with you sooner or later
~ Ahmed Korayem
To merely exist is the gravest of sins
~ Ahmed Korayem
Voicing one's virtues is the deadliest of vices
~ Ahmed Korayem
We cannot simply allow the treacherous few determine the fates of themany. At such times, the virtuous should be held to equalaccountability of the vile for their inactions
~ Ahmed Korayem
Waxaad qiimo iyo sharaf ku lahaan doontaa goobaha shaqada, kolba sida aad u tayeyso xirfada iyo aqoonta aad xanbaarsan tahay.
~ Ahmed Omaar
The recovery of ethics under neoliberalism requires a multiplicity of factors- not just governments- who can create overlapping spheres of justice to achieve a complex equality for the laboring power in America and elsewhere. The question remains whether the political sphere continues to be a vital force in the struggle for democratic rights beyond the human needs of hidden, exploited refugee and immigrant workers.
~ Aihwa Ong
And I do have to say one thing, their families must realise that no matter how much they loved the people that died, no matter how much they love them, they were bad people because they were going to hurt me.
~ Aileen Wuornos
Capitalist society, at its present stage, is incapable of establishing a concept of the rights of all men, just as it has proved incapable of establishing a system of individual ethics. Whether one likes it or not, at the end of the blind alley that is Europe, I mean the Europe of Adenauer, Schuman, Bidault, and a few others, there is Hitler. At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophic renunciation, there is Hitler.
~ Aimé Césaire
We never really get away with anything.
~ Ajahn Chah
Fight against graft needs statesmen, not politicians' Akhbar Satar
~ Akhbar Satar
We need clean, sincere anti-graft warrior Akhbar satar
~ Akhbar Satar
We only need a simple software to solve corruption problem provided the handlers possess integrity.
~ Akhbar Satar