Quotes About Ethics

Ethically challenged magical practitioners," I said.

If they were ugly, Peter, would you care half so much?" asked Nightingale. "There are some hideous things out there that can talk and reason, and I wonder if you would be quite so quick to rush to their defence." "Maybe not," I said. "But that just makes me shallow, it doesn't make me wrong.

Never diss somebody's mum, never play chess with the Kurdish mafia, and never lie down with a woman who's more magical than you are. I

I walked away with the cheerful step of a police officer who's just made a tricky ethical question somebody else's problem.

Libertarians and criminals complain about the surveillance state when they see a camera. Police officers complain about it when they don't.

Did he just ask us to lie to a senior officer?" I asked. "Yup," said Leslie. "Just checking," I said. So we spent the rest of the afternoon bearing false witness in separate interview rooms.

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Always look after your people," he said as I noted down the order. "The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others.

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.

Gallant gestures come easy when your purse is filled with gold.

Do you really think that you're some sort of superior creature? Do you think that your ability to make money, to steal and lie and murder, places you above normal men?

We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.

For a society based on the rule of law, the de facto reality that police officers are often treated as if they are above the law is repulsive.

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good i know of everyone

Immorality may be fun, but it isn't fun enough to take the place of one hundred percent virtue and three square meals a day.

McCue: Now, Mrs. Margolies, this is Mr. McCue of the City News Bureau— City News Bureau— is it rue, Madame that you were the victim of a peeping tom? Kruger: Ask her if she's worth peeping at? Wilson: Has she got a friend?

Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,And almost every vice—almighty gold.

When informed that a clerk at the Portuguese embassy was spying for both the Germans and the Italians, he wrote: "Why don't you shoot him?

only ever stole from those who had money to spare and remained adamant that crime need not involve thuggery: the Pinkertons found it astonishing that "throughout his career he never used a revolver or jeopardized the life of a victim.

If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.

There was a village saying, much repeated: "God said behave, but He didn't say how.

admired goodness, but was not outraged by wickedness