Quotes About Ethics

Research by Cornell's Robert Frank and his colleagues showed that the percentage of students choosing unethical options on an honesty test increased dramatically among students taking microeconomics courses, but not among students in astronomy classes.

Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.

In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand stated that there's no such thing as real altruism. She espoused the principle of ethical egotism, meaning that a person's moral obligation is to promote their own welfare. Translation? I still have the musical sensibilities of a teenage girl and I kind of want to see a shitty pop concert in the guise of doing something nice for my pal's kid, so I need to find a way to make it happen.

I'm not a monster. But I do kill people, have been for more than two decades. Mostly, I'm doing the world a favor. ~Prologue~

Good people with strong convictions could overturn any injustice if they simply refused to quit.

Passionate professors shook her slumbering social conscience awake

Women employees were reportedly hired for their personal attractions rather than their skills, and several young ladies claimed that they were refused employment until they yielded to the passionate embraces of the superintendent of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

One semester, I was busted for reverse plagiarism, which basically meant I was too lazy to research a paper for my psychology class so cited false references to support my own theories on deviant behavior.

He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him. What?' Ronald said. I didn't say anything.' You're breathing heavy.

Would she hit a dog to get great sex?

Values aren't buses, she said shortly. They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are. And I'd rather be touchy-feely than morally bankrupt.

One of the biggest problems this country has is that people think a law is only a law if they agree with it. And if they don't, it's all right to kick guys like Joe out of the service and bomb abortion clinics because there's a higher law at work. And that's garbage, Allie. The law is the law. If you don't like it, change it. But don't break it and then start whining when there are consequences.

One of the biggest problems this country has is that people think a law is a law only if they agree with it. And if they don't, it's all right to kick guys like Joe out of the service and bomb abortion clinics because there's a higher law at work.

The law is a fine thing, even when it's wrong.

Integrity is your own gauge of what is right for you. Integrity is not a stand-alone concept

Although inductions have been attempted for thousands of years, in the past, they were usually done because the baby was already dead or because the mother was sick. Now they tend to be done for less pressing reasons, which may include the obstetrician's dinner reservations.* In theory, they're done only when they're best for mother or baby, but the timing of them makes it pretty clear staffing concerns are a factor as well.

My parents aren't cruel to them. They pay them well. It's more that they treat them like they're pets.

if you use people your entire life, if you manipulate them and take from them, and throw them away when you don't need them anymore, then yes, there are consequences. Bad things happen.

that if you use people your entire life, if you manipulate them and take from them, and throw them away when you don't need them anymore, then yes, there are consequences.

Everyone deserves justice, I thought. Even people who lie. And everyone lies. Especially on social media, where there were lies of commission and lies of omission on everyone's page, woven into everyone's public presence.

The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

if you hate much, punish much: if you hate little, punish little: punish as you hate. If you hate not at all, punish not at all:

aliment of philosophic pride: the hope of honour and reputation at the