Quotes About Ethics

I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities.

She took a small device out of her bag, slipped it into her pocket. Micro recorder? Roarke clucked his tongue. I believe that's illegal. Not to mention rude. I don't know what you're talking about. And unnecessary, he added. He turned his wrist, tapped a tiny button on the side of his watch. This one is much more efficient. I should know. I manufacture both brands. He smiled as the car stopped at the edge of a small clearing

Justice doesn't hide behind anonymity. It doesn't operate without rules of conduct.

Real responsibility means doing what's right, even when it's hard.

Murder doesn't leave anyone innocent. It shouldn't.

There's always a way out. You just have to pay the price, whether it's money, status, the emotional hit, or all of that and more. Cheating's cheap and it's lazy.

Criminal activity does have its appeal. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many criminals.

I crossed the line." "The line shifts." Now he gave those shoulders a quick, impatient shake. "If the law, if justice has no compassion, no fluidity, no humanity, how is it justice?

You've got a point. But I like it better when the bad guys are just the bad guys." "There's always plenty of them to go around.

Cheating's cheap and it's lazy.

There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't.

I'm fascinating by the hard line you're drawing over religion.' 'it gets used too much as an excuse, a fall guy, a weapon, a con. A lot of people, maybe most, don't mean it except when it suits them.

give details, professional courtesy

You'd never ask me to do something that wasn't right. There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't." And that, Eve realized, might be the long and short of why she'd made Peabody her partner.

We don't always do what's right, what's good. Not even for each other. But when it counts, down to the core of it, I believe we do exactly that. What's right and good for each other.

Stuff it, Jerry. This isn't just police business. It's humanity's business. Humanity, Jerry!

And what this small and, yes, treacherous, percentage of all the good men and women who work and risk and fight every single day has done to diminish that work, that risk, that fight, it weighs heavily.

was, Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People. And it's true enough. But a gun gives them a hell of a lot of help.

You'd never ask me to do something that wasn't right. There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. —Blaise Pascal

Out of terrible times, perhaps more than ordinary ones, heroes and villains spring. Sometimes there's little difference between them but a choice, and the choice made defines them. Look at the choices.

Nobody should let cops like you slide. You think the badge is some sort of protection for you? Some sort of hammer you can toss around? It's your fucking responsibility, your goddamn duty, not your cushion and not your weapon.

Replicating human beings in a lab, selecting traits, eliminating others. Who decides what are the parameters? What of the failures, as there must be in any sort of experimentation of procedures.

Money laundering's frowned upon." "A pity, as it comes out so crisp and clean.