Quotes About Ethics

I've spent decades waking up every morning eager to fight Democrats, trying to gain every bit of advantage for every battle. God knows we made mistakes and played too often on the dark side. But I never woke up knowing that somewhere out there a Russian agent was waking up with the same job I had.

When you learn that the bank you borrowed money from is actually owned by a drug cartel, should your first reaction be, "Well, we got a good interest rate"? The simple reality is that the Republican Party was in business with Russian intelligence efforts, what used to be known as the KGB, and precious few leading the Republican Party seem to give a damn.

Don't be a complainer, and always think before you speak. Stay away from gossip, offensive language, or off-color jokes.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

At heart, I've always been a pretty little moralist. Private investigation is just my way of acting out.

I'm not saying justice is for sale, but if you have enough money, you can sometimes enjoy the benefits of a short-term lease.

It's been my observation, after years in the business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

nothing wrong with a lie or two when the situation demanded it

I should have reminded myself that people willing to cheat a little bit are generally dishonest throughout.

There was a certain, subterranean moral code in play, but surely, I could think of a way around that old thing.

influenced, and I'd be corrupting his

Law and order, punishment and fair play, are all on a continuum where there are far more gray stretches than there are black and white.

El honor significa una cosa para un hombre, y otra distinta para otro.

Si no hablamos del mal, ¿cómo comprenderemos qué es el bien?

I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood against the devastation and suffering they caused in people's lives. (from 'The Dance of the Dissident Daughter'.)

since for all I knew, people might come back one day as the very thing they killed.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. Such a notion made it virtually impossible to enjoy life.

I'll take nine steps and look up. Whatever my eyes light on, that's my sign. I saw a crop duster plunging his little plane over a field of growing things, behind him a cloud of pesticides parachuting out. I couldn't decide what part of the scene I represented: the plants about to be rescued from the bugs or the bugs about to be murdered by the spray. There was an off chance I was really the airplane zipping over the earth creating rescue and doom everywhere I went.

I personally keep slave documents listing the value of slaves framed on my wall in California, and in my office in Chicago.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." Such

Everything I knew about rape I'd learned from the Scriptures.

He gazed at me with kindness and pity. "To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.

he quoted a scripture from Ephesians, reciting from memory. "Slaves, be obedient to them that are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as unto Christ." Then he made what many, including my mother, would call the most eloquent extemporization on slavery they'd ever heard. "Slaves, I admonish you to be content with your lot, for it is the will of God! Your obedience is mandated by scripture. It is commanded by God through Moses.