Quotes About Ethics

money kill justice

Could be he was a demon. Low-level. Many politicians were.

Well, one shouldn't smoke when he's drunk and one mustn't fall in love with a girl who isn't the right religion.

Leaving out isn't the same as lying.

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

Daily he was called upon to solve the insoluble, to divine the truth between competing perjuries, to apportion derisory incomes among innumerable creditors,

El verdadero opio del pueblo es la creencia en la nada después de la muerte; el gran consuelo que trae pensar que no vamos a ser juzgados por nuestras traiciones, avaricia, cobardía y crímenes

Indeed, the price one had to pay to remain true to the logic of History was terrible. One had to behold passively the death of thousands, take on one's conscience the torture of women and children transformed into human torches

If there is no God, Not everything is permitted to man. He is still his brother's keeper And he is not permitted to sadden his brother, By saying there is no God.

Unable to restrain himself, driven by sheer love for the animal, he fired. It was a young one, so slender that what he had taken for a squirrel was not a squirrel but the shimmer of color deposited in its wake. Its body bending and unbending on the moss, it clutched its chest with its tiny paws, at the bloody patch on its little white vest. It didn't know what death was; it was trying to remove it, as if it were a spike on which it had been impaled and around which it could only pivot.

Vaterland nennt sich der Staat immer dann, wenn er sich anschickt, auf Menschenmord auszugehen. / A state always calls itself fatherland when it is about to commit murder.

in those days nobody talked about being happy, like they do now – nobody minded whether children were happy, the really important thing was that they should be good. But I really think that people were just as happy as they are now, only they never thought about whether they were or not.

Barbie smiled. 'But that's business,' she declared. 'Sometimes people are nice and sometimes nasty. In business you have to take the rough with the smooth

I always feel uncomfortable when I do things forbidden by Tim. (A relic of Victorianism, I suppose.)

said to him. "We aren't playing here. Guns kill people." "Guns don't kill people," Tori said. "People kill people." "People with guns kill people," I said. "But you're right. We have to be able to protect ourselves.

There's good. There's evil. And there's a sea of confusion in between. I can only hope that at some point I'll be able to sort it out.

You're aghast at the fact that I'll bring an animal from Cloral or a weapon from Eelong, yet you are quick to bring something that is far more intrusive. You bring ideas, Pendragon! You were raised on Second Earth, and you are all too quick to impose what you feel are the higher morals of that territory on all others. How is that any different from what I have done?

Commercials were once TV's version of the church. Which is to say, you couldn't offend the sponsor; therefore, certain values had to be underscored in the subject matter.

In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

I fantasize that our politicians have been moved by the dialogues of Plato, and thus contemplate the ancient conflict of the sophists versus the lovers of truth.

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.

To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.