Quotes About Ethics

before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience,' said Atticus.

I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

one must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

I deny having taken part in such a thing.

Miss Maudie stopped rocking, and her voice hardened. "You are too young to understand it," she said, "but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of—oh, of your father.

Jem's face showed brief indecision on the ethics of withholding his own dime, but his innate courtesy won and he shifted his dime to his pocket. I did likewise with no qualms.

Because I could never ask you to mind me again. Scout, simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one casein his lifetime that affects him personally. This one's mine, I guess. You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for once... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

es posible pararle los pies a una turba, simplemente porque continúan siendo seres humanos.

uno debe mentir en ciertas circunstancias, en particular cuando no puede modificar las circunstancias. —Hemos

whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

You can't do that, Scout," Atticus said. "Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases. In your case, the law remains rigid. So to school you must go.

cheatin' a colored man is ten times worse than cheatin' a white man

I think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things. I guess he decided he wouldn't shoot till he had to, and he had to today." "Looks like he'd be proud of it," I said. "People in their right minds never take pride in their talents," said Miss Maudie.

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

When you happened along and saw him doing something that seemed to you to be the very antithesis of his conscience-your conscience-you literally could not stand it. It made you physically ill. Life became hell on earth for you. You had to kill yourself, or he had to kill you to get you functioning as a separate entity.

Every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally.

I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads--they couldn't be fair if they tried.

Henry, how can you live with yourself?" "It's comparatively easy. Sometimes I just don't vote my convictions, that's all.

I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

But Mrs Dubose held us: 'Not only a Finch waiting on tables but one in the court-house lawing for niggers!

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit em, but remember that it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.