Quotes About Ethics

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I did my job," the lawyer said. "The sworn oath of the mediocre," Father Bobby said.

All money is blood money.

Cuando un hombre tiene que abusar de la mentira para cumplir con su deber puede estar seguro de que anda equivocado de verdad o de deber.

Han enseñado a la gente a necesitar demasiadas fruslerías. Me temo que el noventa y cinco por ciento de la población de Europa occidental aceptaría la destrucción del planeta a cien años vista si ése fuera el precio de poder seguir teniendo lavadora.

Si mañana me fusilan, fusilarán a un general que ha hecho honor a su palabra y a sus juramentos militares. Pero si mañana le fusilan a usted, fusilarán a un general que ha faltado a su palabra y a su honor

Immanuel Kant, autor subversivo en tiempos de sinrazón

El alma es la suma de las cosas que uno ha vivido antes de hacerse un canalla escéptico" La flaqueza del bolchevique, capítulo XI

And you didn't ask why she was in therapy?" "Who asks people why they go to see a psychologist? It's not right to ask such things.

People don't hire lawyers like Klister when they have nothing to hide. This woman's fee would send average folk into bankruptcy, or at the least force a second mortgage

Prosecution screwed up. I didn't. Hey, don't look at me like that, it's what I get paid the big bucks for—getting the law right." She reaches for her drink and leans back in her chair. "I'm no arbiter of morals. I just work within the letter of law.

I have always believed that anyone who must violate the law to achieve his purposes must lack either intelligence or imagination, probably both.

His conscience smote him. As smitings go, it wasn't much, his conscience being in poor fighting condition.

Hypocrisy seemed to be the fashionable equivalent of propriety, discretion indistinguishable from morality, and the

Perhaps he will say, 'That was an excellent idea the ancient Greeks had, of abandoning female infants on a mountainside. Why was that practice given up, I wonder?

Catholic School–Induced Conscience (CSIC)

In the end, the judge ruled that no woman has "the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conception": if a woman isn't willing to die in childbirth, she shouldn't have sex.

Wow. He's perfect for politics. He's got that lying, cheating, stealing thing down.

JiminyCricket

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.   —Dave Barry

Try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value.

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.