Quotes About Ethics

No, no puedes echarle mano de una pistola y pegarle un tiro a una chica a la que ni siquiera conoces, simplemente porque te atrae.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

because shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet.

The beauty of HTML was that one-way linking made it very simple to spread because you could put something up and take no responsibility whatsoever. And that creates a society in which people display no responsibility whatsoever. That's the problem.

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Heaven and Earth are not humane.They regard all things as straw dogs.

Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.

How long can you brush up against evil and not come away stained with it yourself?

Too much power is never a good thing. It corrupts even the strongest.

the president of Goodwill Industries made $800,000 a year.

People shooting other people is bad and don't nobody have to tell you, you born knowing it.

Or the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Speaking on NBC's Meet The Press, Craig told Tim Russert: "The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy - a naughty boy. I'm going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy."

I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.

Denis could think of no logical reason why he should not attempt to mate with Beth Cooper. There were no laws explicitly against it. They were of the same species, and had complementary sex organs, most likely, based on extensive mental modeling Denis had done.

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

The Talmud stresses that a group's behavior comes from the top: "The acts of the leader are the acts of the nation. If the leader is just, the nation is just; if the leader is unjust, that nation is also unjust and will be punished for the sins of the leader."' The term nation applies to any group of people, including companies.

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae