Quotes About Ethics

If the Walkman had, by default, silently contacted your friends and told them what you were listening to, not only would no one have bought a Walkman in the first place, its designers would have been viewed with the utmost suspicion.

The Supreme Court must never be viewed as a partisan institution.

In my entire life, I've never managed to do anything that I've truly been ashamed of.

It sounds like if it weren't for your boyfriend, you'd be eating meat." "Probably," I admitted. "But I agree with Dane's take on the issues, and most of the time it's not a problem for me. Unfortunately, I'm temptable." "I like that in a woman. It almost makes up for your conscience.

The way I was brought up 'he needed killing' is an airtight alibi.

Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . " Another big swallow. "Or the wrong thing for the right reason.

Kindness counts the most when it's given to people who don't deserve it.

In Jack's view, you were obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning.

Inwardly she argued with herself, reflecting that it never ended well when one did something morally questionable for the right reasons.

Too much thinking will excite the sparks of vice.

do you truly expect that the two of us are going to share a bed tonight- and tomorrow night- as chastely as a pair of nuns on holiday?" "That will pose no difficulty for me," Evie said gingerly, conscious that she was delivering an insult of the highest order.

But it's a fact of life that dreadful people usually end up getting far better than they deserve.

We men face temptations. Sometimes we stray. It is the way of the world." "It's not my way," Matthew said flatly. "I stand by my word, both in business and in my personal life. If or when I promise to be faithful to a woman, I would be. No matter what.

do you know what lying has in common with bullfighting?" "No, sir." "If you can't do it well, it's better not to do it at all.

Having your own church doesn't make you a good guy. It only makes you tax-exempt.

Es mucho más fácil ser malo —dijo el—. Especialmente si uno no tiene ninguna razón para ser bueno.

Most men have inner demons," Kingston replied quietly. "God knows I do. So does a friend who's the finest and most genuinely moral man I've ever known.

The sin was not love, but the lack of it. The thing to fear was not scandal, but the betrayal of one's own morality.

It's a sin." "How do you know?" "Because it feels like one

Justice may be blind but it loves the sound of money.

St. Vincent was a handsome man with wheat-colored hair and pale blue eyes. Some claimed he had the most perfect form and features of any man alive. The looks of a saint, the soul of a scoundrel.

Will you swear on your honor to keep it in confidence?" "Of course," Devon said readily. Having no honor, he never hesitated to promise something on it.

A man wasn't entitled to lie or take advantage of others merely because he didn't respect them.

The problem isn't reading Ayn Rand, it's liking her.