Quotes About Ethics

Company G today committed a war crime. They are going to win the war, however, so I don't suppose it really matters.

I'm not a role model.

I am not a role model. I am not paid to be a role model. I am paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court. Parents should be role models. Just because I dunk a basketball, doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

Perhaps it would be sweet to be, in turn, both victim and executioner.

There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan.

What is art? Prostitution.

There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

Ethics is a dream, and tenderness a daytime phantasm, lost when night comes.

To the beautiful falls the right of command, he observes, quoting Aristotle, although he adds that this situation is not always just.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

Ethics is a dream.

I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

I try to construct a theory on how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

Wednesday night was the night that you went out with your wives, that way nobody was seen out with his cumare, his mistress, whatever you want to call it. Everybody knew not to be out with their cumare on Wednesday night. It was like an unwritten rule.

The "means" was his second philosophy and can be summed up by a remark he made to Bobby Kennedy at a private party in which they found themselves together: "I do to others what they do to me, only worse." Simply put, Jimmy Hoffa believed that the "ends" of improving the lot of working Americans, with his union leading the way, justified whatever "means" were used to accomplish it.

Make what use of the tale you shall think proper. If it be communicated to the world, it will inculcate the duty of avoiding deceit. It will exemplify the force of early impressions, and show, the immeasurable evils that flow from an erroneous or imperfect discipline.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

The conflict between these visions is not between good and evil, but between different ideas of the good life, between ethical orders that give priority to personal liberty and those that give priority to what might be called connection.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.