Quotes About Ethics

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Lying is always a mistake. if you've done something wrong just tell the truth so you won't commit two mistakes.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

I hate a liar more than a thief. A thief is only after my belongings and a liar is after my reality

There is only one sin that is theft... when you tell a lie you steel someone's right to truth.

People who lie & deceive should remember it's a small world out there, with strange coincidences. What you give out, you get back, thrice-fold. Be ready for it!

If lying was a job, I know some people who would be a billionaire.

In movies there is a clear line between the good guys and the bad guys. In life, not so much.

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

There are two types of friends; one who always pushes you to do the right thing and one who always abetting you to do the wrong thing.

When in doubt, do the friendliest thing.

If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.