Quotes About Ethics

Mass tort litigation was not practicing law. It was a roguish form of entrepreneurship.

If a prosecutor gets caught cheating, he either gets reelected or elevated to the bench. Our system never holds a bad prosecutor accountable. The

I'm thinking about public interest law." "What the hell is that?" "It's when you work for the good of society without making a lot of money.

I'm a human first, then a lawyer. It's possible to be both—not quite so much on the spread there. We have to be efficient.

For years he had led the prayer each Sunday at the First Methodist Church in Danesboro, and the other six days he had tirelessly practiced greed and manipulation.

I'm sure that if I stay in this business I'll one day think of a dirtier trick, but one's hard to imagine now.

You're willing to just sit by and push papers around your desk while this guy literally gets away with murder and keeps on killing.

Okay, let's have it.

They moved closer together, and his hand was suddenly between her knees. His elbow nestled next to her left breast, and he smiled. She smiled. This was not altogether unpleasant, she thought, but there was business at hand. The

It's not slander if it's true.

Mary forbade this. She preferred to leave things the way they were than get involved in anything disreputable.

You cannot compromise principles to achieve unity

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

you ought to be good even if you did not believe that you would burn in torment forever if you were bad;

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians. The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose.

Mankind must destroy anti-humanity before it becomes extinct itself.

principle cannot complain of a war against civilians. The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result?

Comradeship, dignity, amorosity, love, solidarity, fraternity, friendship, ethics: all these names stand in contrast to the commodified, monetised relations of capitalism, all describe relations developed in struggles against capitalism and which can be seen as anticipating or creating a society beyond capitalism.

If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.

You can't get around what's right, though, he said. When we stop loving them, that's when they win.

If the judgement makes the law and not the law directs the judgement, it is impossible there should be such a thing as an illegal judgement given.

A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.