Quotes About Ethics

coercive government policies strip the virtue out of every transaction.

THE SCHOOLS THEY NEVER BUILT The Clintons claim to have built schools in Haiti. But the New York Times discovered that when it comes to the Clintons, "built" is a term with a very loose interpretation.

For most Democrats, the topic is both touchy and distasteful. It's one thing to rob from the rich but quite another to rob from the poorest of the poor. Some of the Democratic primary support for Bernie Sanders was undoubtedly due to Democrats' distaste over the financial shenanigans of the Clintons. Probably these Democrats considered the Clintons to be unduly grasping and opportunistic, an embarrassment to the great traditions of the Democratic Party.

We remain the custodians of the idea that wealth should be obtained through

Let us concede at the outset that, in a free society, freedom will frequently be used badly. Freedom, by definition, includes freedom to do good or evil, to act nobly or basely. Thus we should not be surprised that there is a considerable amount of vice, licentiousness, and vulgarity in a free society. Given the warped timber of humanity, freedom is simply an expression of human flaws and weaknesses. But if freedom brings out the worst in people, it also brings out the best.

What's striking here is the shamelessness of Moore, Sanders and Warren.

Omar herself seems quite protective of these terrorists. In August 2019, Omar called for the protection of a Somali telecom company called Hormuud, invoking its "vital services" and "enormous contribution to the economy." She neglected to mention that the founder, Ahmed Nur Ali Jimale, is known to be one of the chief financiers of al-Shabab.

What kind of generosity is it that forcibly seizes and then disburses other people's money? This is not generosity; it's larceny.

For the Bidens, it's not just about Joe; it's a family racket that includes his son Hunter and his two brothers, James and Frank. All of them have become millionaires by trading on Biden's political name and connections. "In the early 2000s," Politico reports, "Hunter had opened a lobbying practice that landed clients with interests that overlapped with Joe's committee assignments and legislative priorities.

The Devil's out of fashion.

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

It can't be immoral to love anyone -- as long as one doesn't hurt anyone by it.

And though I cannot honestly say I would ever turn my back on any luxury that I could come by, I do feel there is something a bit wrong in it. Perhaps that makes it all the more enjoyable.

Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

How many times do two people have to fuck before one of them deserves to die?

Like I'm a person and you're a person, which gives you the right to kill me.

Is it better to commit evil and attempt to balance it with an exalted act than to live a resolutely neutral life?

De eso se trata con la tecnología: por una parte, consigue despertar nuestro apetito por la inmortalidad; por otra, amenaza con extinción universal. La tecnología es la naturaleza desprovista de lujuria.

What happens to good an evil in this system? Passion, envy and hate? Do they become a tangle of neurons? Are you telling me that a whole tradition of human failings is now at an end, that cowardice, sadism, molestation are meaningless terms? Are we being asked to regard these things nostalgically? What about murderous rage? A murderer used to have a certain fearsome size to him. His crime was large. what happens when we reduce it to calls and molecules?

Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

La prosperidad que la tecnología crea ya no es mayor que la intimidad que destruye.

Never underestimate the power of social pressures on behavior, causing otherwise sensible people to do things they know are wrong and possibly dangerous.

Open markets are the ideal, but if one guy is cheating the whole time, how is that free trade?