Quotes About Ethics

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

I am deficient in character, and if I had more of it, I would be ashamed of the fact.

Show me a man of unflinching rectitude and I'll show you a man who hasn't been offered his price.

Doesn't matter, does it?" said George. "They're just as dead. Their blood is on your hands." "They don't have blood." "Humans are only literal when they're ashamed of something.

Religion is like having children, or taking medicine, or eating, or any of a thousand other perfectly rational human activities: Taken in small doses, it has much to recommend it. One need only avoid going overboard.

Despite never once being cited by HR for discriminatory practices, or being known as a sexist, Google fired James for sharing his paper. Not only was James fired but he was publicly shamed for reporting on existing research, research which to any reasonable observer, is non-controversial. James made the ultimate mistake. He failed to understand the request for feedback was an empty one, that critical consideration of all sides of an argument was undesirable, even anathema to the cause.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

Some guys got class even if they're cops. When

condition for days? Or should I end her torture quickly? I couldn't take her to the hospital, I'd go to jail for sure. I

Sociopath was really just a politically correct way to say "the devil".

Listen, Bob. A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel—or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good—and as bad—as the man who carries it. Remember that.

A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel - or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good - and as bad - as the man who carries it.

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.

Living creatures, if nothing else, have the right to life. It is their only truly precious possession, and the stealing of life is a wicked theft

The rules were clear then. If you once crossed the line from journalism into partisan politics, you could not return. They were them and we were us.

Using this novel method, doctors could treat female patients without violating the honor of her family.

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

The third way is less common and certainly less of a layup—a culture of integrity, meaning a culture of honesty, transparency, fairness, and strict adherence to rules and regulations. In such cultures, there can be no head fakes or winks. People who break the rules do not leave the company for "personal reasons" or to "spend more time with their families." They are hanged—publicly—and the reasons are made painfully clear to everyone.

Not long after we started working for him I asked Bernard if he thought Thatcher was evil,'I said. 'He said it was like asking what jazz is.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

In work and in life, no matter how smart, talented, and beautiful you are, you also have to be a good person.

I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.

Wallace Stegner was a man who lived under the obligation of trying his best to be a "good man," and his writing was part and parcel of that effort. For him, the individual, insofar as his or her capabilities allow, must not only take charge of his or her own destiny, but take on the responsibility of contributing to the welfare of others in family, community and society.

Es una realidad desafortunada que únicamente dos cosas, el escándalo y la controversia, venden más periódicos y libros que los grandes ejemplos de literatura y educación juntos." (Traducción: Mireia Terés)