Quotes About Ethics

We all would like to think that we would never, in a million years, have a glass of wine and get behind the wheel of a car, but it could happen, and then you could run a red light.

If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong.

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.

I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.

Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.

God, she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?

Todos devemos ter percepção das nossas responsabilidades.

Não se deve morder a mão que nos dá a comida.

The rector of Manchester invited a local couple, with their daughter, to dinner. The rector's servants seized the daughter, broke two of her ribs, and then deposited her in the rector's bed; he had sex with her that night, but the unfortunate girl died from her injuries a month later.

Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own.

Your morals are your own affair, mum. As are my own.

The biggest evildoers in the world, the ones who do what's not right, are the ones who have all the power, and that's what makes it right. It's right not 'cause you say so, or I say, or even if the Lord on high says so. It's right 'cause them what's got the money and the power, they say it's right, and that makes it right even if it's dead wrong. Dead wrong.

There are some for whom the good of mankind is their primary concern, and others who basically put their own considerations before everyone else. I was among the latter.

An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance, and nothing else. Any attempt by an employer to go beyond this is usurpation. It is an immoral as well as illegal intrusion of privacy.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

There is no such thing as a "good man." Good for what? is the question.

Measuring requires, first and foremost, analytical ability. But it also demands that measurement be used to make self-control possible, rather than abused to control people from the outside and above—that is, to dominate them.