Quotes About Ethics

Her zaman yapamayaca??m?z ÅŸeyleri düÅŸünüyoruz, s?n?rlar?m?z?n nerede olduÄŸunu buluyoruz ve böylece bir ÅŸeylerin k?y?s?na kadar gidip sonra da teknik zeminde masumluÄŸumuzu iddia ediyoruz.

He had sometimes thought that if she had the option to be nothing but a brain in a jar, that would be fine with her.

Nothing's worse than a bad person who thinks he's good.

Wanting to play God for your own private purposes, whatever they are, might be what getting greedy is

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

The distant threat of eternal damnation pales in comparison to the immediate gratification of corrupting young skin.

In a world where everything could be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, it was too incredible to think that this could not.

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

There are two good reasons for being nice to the underdogs in this life. One, because if the underdog grows up to be the kind of person that starts shooting, you'll have a chance at survival. Two, because it's the right thing to do. (42)

Everyone's fake in certain situations. It's like when you go for a job interview and they ask you, "What would you do if you found one of your friends at work stealing?" and, let's face it, no one's going to tell on their friend. But of course you have to say, "I would tell IMMEDIATELY, because I don't think I could work in that kind of environment, it's not good for my morale." No one wants to look like an idiot.

Additionally, using the forms of publicity that capitalist culture makes available for collective identifications, some of these sex publics have exposed contradictions in the free market economics of the right, which names nonmarital sex relations as immoral while relations of economic inequality, dangerous workplaces, and disloyalty to employees amount to business as usual, not provoking any ethical questions about the privileges only some citizens enjoy.

He was beginning to think Mr Piper the philosophy teacher was right: man was not born good, he was just out for himself, and when he got the chance he would laugh at those less fortunate, those unlucky ones who kept on flunking French.

Everyone always thinks they're the good guys,' said Ruby. 'Yes they do,' said LB. 'But happily for us, we are.' 'Well you might know that but how do I?

This was RULE 32: TELL ONE LIE AND GET READY TO TELL A WHOLE LOT MORE.

That mama-bear, elegant-and-modest-on-the-outside, hot-as-allfuck-on-the-inside thing was ringing his doorbell. And God help him, he knew it was beyond inappropriate to be making up fuck fantasies about this woman right then but he couldn't help it.

You simply lose credibility when you act the way those who seek to harm you act.

We need a new religion.

It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.

There are plenty of bad people in the world," he said. "Too many to count. But there are good people, too.

What had Dr. Latham done to deserve a beating?

Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

Of low extraction, and a person of weak character, his advancement must always be regarded with wonder.