Quotes About Ethics

It is one thing to kill in a duel, to kill in self-defense, to kill for vengeance. It is another thing entirely to kill simply because you are careless.

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I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.

A lynching always makes a town look bad," Alan Brownfield said. "But a card cheat often makes it look worse.

Equality and respect are woven into the fabric of the conduct and performance of iconic organizations and leaders. Period.

Q: Who makes more money, a drug dealer or a hooker? A: A hooker, because she can wash her crack and reuse it.

A lawyer is standing in a long line outside a movie theater. Suddenly, he feels a pair of hands massaging his shoulders and neck. The lawyer turns around. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" "I'm a chiropractor, and I'm just keeping in practice while I'm waiting in line." "Well, I'm a lawyer, but do you see me screwing the guy in front of me??

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

People assume that if they use higher mathematics and computer models they're doing the Lord's work," observed Buffett's longtime partner, the cerebral Charlie Munger. "They're usually doing the devil's work.

The big challenge is, we have to constrain and mold our ambition level without losing the spark. The stuff I lose sleep over nigh is, how are we doing on this? We want to make progress as fast as possible without exploiting human resources. How do you move faster without killing people? How do you build a community around the project without losing design integrity? And how do we get on an arc that moves from benign dictatorship to more small-group democracy?

A good book appeals to what is best in us....

As you can see, the words fair play are not in my vocabulary. Well, they are in my vocabulary, but only to say that they aren't.

As with anything worth achieving, the road to all-encompassing evil has no shortcuts.

Why, my client wondered, would a guy like me make his living like this? Well, you'd think the three hundred dollars he paid just to watch me take a shower would have given him a clue.

We don't have to be bad forever. We can fight our urges. We can choose to be good.

You can fuck your math teacher but you can't fuck math.

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system--the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges--would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of evreyone, and withich, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

My client may deserve serious punishment, but first prove that is the case. And remember at all times that he is a human being, which means he must be treated with minimum standards of decency, because doing so redeems not only him but you.

Maybe he knows it's cheaper to bribe a justice than to pay human labor.

You lose more of yourself than you redeemDoing the decent thing.

War has an appetite For human goodness but it won't touch the bad.

You can't just pluck your honour off a bush You didn't plant.

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.