Quotes About Ethics

And yet, even as I made these plans, there was a small dismayed corner of my heart. Like those stupid cartoons when you're a kid: little red devil on one shoulder and the little angel in his nightie on the other. My good angel was hiding his eyes.

God's laws tell us right from wrong and how we are to treat others. As the founding fathers established a new democracy in America, they did so on the premise that humanity was fallen and thus there was a need for a rule of law to curb our natural tendencies to follow our own wants and lusts even to the detriment of others.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.

I've never had an angel on my right shoulder; I was born with a pointy-tailed devil, who crept back and forth across my neck to get his whispers into both my ears.

I had a strict No Assholes policy, and I'd never met a cheater of either sex who wasn't some stripe of asshole underneath the He doesn't understand mes and the We drifted aparts and the She won't do that thing I need in beds

I'd grown up with a woman who could make a heap of stolen parts sound truer than the truth. She could shade a story I'd heard a thousand times until all at once the meaning inverted and it became its own opposite. I was her kid. I operated inside the ethics of my profession, but I could spin like nobody's business.

Burr had to know I understood what I had done. I knew you couldn't kill only the pieces that needed killing, and leave the pretty parts whole.

I mean, what's wrong with treating something as a day job? Day jobs are perfectly respectable. We're all here to make rent money by tricking people into buying things, right, so why try to elevate it?

Among mankind's greatest faults is his a) kindness, b) generosity, c) fortitude, d) contentment, e) vanity. That was debatable. But the Pythagorean theorem was not, and if the civilian Uri was one side and the soldier Uri was the other, the true him was the hypotenuse, slanted opposite, the squared sum of both.

However, the outcome is inconsistent with the general principle that people should not be punished in the absence of culpability, since one who acts on the basis of a reasonable mistake of law lacks moral blameworthiness.

Freedom of religion in America is all fine and good until you start believing in nothing, and then it is a crime to be punished.' " "Is

He asked me to prepare semolina for forty people, saying that they were workers at his farm," his mother remembered. "In fact they were Islamists, but I could not refuse them.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.

Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right

My duty is simply my own will brought to my clear self-consciousness. That which I can rightly view as good for me is simply the object of my own deepest desire set plainly before my insight.

What is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.

You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

If you can't do something smart, do something right.

Um homem de bem, quando não pode mais honrar os compromissos que assumiu, manda em seu lugar o atestado de óbito.

The Case against Psychotherapy Registration

Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's intellectual and moral evolution. Which is how the human animal is meant to evolve, isn't it?

who value a handshake more than an unreadable fancy signature,