Quotes About Ethics

I don't think that the Internet has contributed greatly to immorality.

Integrity means there is not a real-life you and an internet you. The two are one and the same. If you're not kind on the Internet, you're not kind.

Any senator who commits himself or herself to something, should be man or woman enough to take a stand... If they give their word to support something that they are ashamed of, then that is a hypocrisy, and could be interpreted as not wanting to be associated with the matter.

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.

I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.

In those days, and still now, I had a lot of women friends -- mostly in the black swan category-- who ignored convention and things society expected women to be, but didn't fuck your boyfriend, no matter what. Fucking people's husbands is for people from Ivy League colleges who read too much John O'Hara.

But to be corrupt, you must once have been innocent - and I guess some people never were.

The African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plain [when speaking of female genital mutilation]: In a man it would range from amoutation of most of the penis, to "removal of all the penis, its roots of soft tissue and part of the scrotal skin.

Honestly, unless you killed the chef or the farmer, there should be no guilt about your eating choices.

Intuitive Eaters march to their inner hunger signals, and eat whatever they choose without experiencing guilt or an ethical dilemma.

Calling sin righteous and righteousness sin will always bear consequences.

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

More writers fail from lack of character than from lack of intelligence.

When the head of state of family thinks first of gouging out an income, he must perforce do it through small men; and even if they are clever at their job, if one employ such inferior characters in state and family business the tilled fields will go rack swamp and ruin and edged calamities will mount up to the full.... This is the meaning of: A state does not profit by profits - Pound's translation of Confucius

The real trouble with war is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

It is good strategy to stand up for the right, even when it is unpopular. Perhaps I should say, especially when it is unpopular.