Quotes About Ethics

You know, Owen, it's deeply concerning how lightly you take the killing of another human.

Corruption is not a moral problem, it is a distribution system and a way of amassing power.

I've been ripped off, conned, lied to and cheated... but I'm still here. Cheaters never prosper. If stealing from you is the only way for them to get ahead - they're never going to get very far. Because thats all they are - just a thief. When they lose it, they can't rebuild because they don't know how. They never did the ground work in the first place. All they know is how to steal!

Consciously or not, greed and power are deadly partners.

And I don't want to be a part of the 'who's got the bigger sword?' contest you two have going on, either. I don't do cockfights. I just want to do my job and do it well.

What do poems have to do with an ethics of conviviality? Poems are beginners. The urgent social abjection of the poem might act as shelter to a gestured vernacular. Covertly the poem transforms that vernacular to a prosodic gift whose agency flourishes in the bodily time of an institutional and economic evasion. Let us suppose here that poems are those commodious anywheres that might evade determination by continuously inviting their own dissolution in semantic distribution. In

You should never use propaganda to teach kids the truth.

What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it's practice for sociopaths.

Mychael said the rock's not affecting you, and from what I'm seeing I'm inclined to agree." "I beg to differ." "Feeling evil?" Justinius asked. "No." "Having an urge to overthrow governments, kill thousands?" "No and no." "Take over the world?" "Too much work.

I've committed many despicable acts in my life—and if I enjoyed them enough, I would do them again—but I would never dream of spoiling the ending to a book.

A person must have principles, Epiphany. That's the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose your principles is to give them up. Remember that.

It feels like people will poke a spear in anyplace they can draw blood these days. It wasn't that way when I was growing up. Even in politics, people had some…" I search for the word, and the best thing I can come up with is "decency.

A man who doesn't stand for what is right dies his own death well before it happens.

Tough times make good people and bad people.

The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption by Barbara Bisantz Raymond

Conscience is a formidable and determined adversary. By nature, it strikes the weakest point in a man's reasoning.

I was raised that way too.

In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.

Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

Men?s minds are generally ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves.

And when she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad she was horrid. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.