Quotes About Ethics

That's my job, to forge the blade. To sharpen it. To use it without mercy or conscience. To be the truth in a place where everybody lies.

True justice was the brass ring just out of reach.

Maybe sometimes vengeance is just as good as justice," he said. "They're pretty much the same if you ask me.

play fair, Haller." "It's not a fair game. Did she tell you

corruption will be the new growth industry without the papers watching.

government, a bureaucracy, a business. When there are no rules then corruption sets in like rust.

humans will sink to the lowest depths if the right opportunity presents itself.

this kid his asshole, then that's the cost. But

MICHAEL CONNELLY TWO KINDS OF TRUTH

Sometimes you do the wrong thing for the right reason.

Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

Malcolm said, "You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Don't you have that feeling now?

Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

People aren't studying the natural world any more, they're mining it.

One reason abortion remained illegal was because it was so safe.

Science has attained so much power that its practical limits begin to be apparent. Largely through science, billions of us live in one small world, densely packed and intercommunicating. But science cannot help us decide what to do with that world, or how to live. Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it cannot tell us not to build it. Science can make pesticide, but cannot tell us not to use it.

You know what's wrong with scientific power?" Malcolm said. "It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are. It never fails.

You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you wanna sell it. Well…your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should

If there's anything worse than a limousine liberal," Morton said, "it's a Gulfstream environmentalist.

Astronauts leave trash on the moon. There is always some proof that scientists were there, making their discoveries. Discovery is always a rape of the natural world. Always.

Eugenics research was funded by the Carnegie Foundation, and later by the Rockefeller Foundation. The