Quotes About Ethics

We would be destroying a habitable world," Sloane said, at once repulsed and amazed.

Starfleet, where keeping decorum ranked just beneath exploration as its reason for existing.

I'm not sure it's altogether right to encourage and reward fighting and killing, but that's the way things are.

Defoe's Moll Flanders, Fielding's Tom Jones and Johnson's moralizing fable, Rasselas.

But I also think the doctrine of laissez faire, carried to its extreme, is equally repugnant. Too many capitalists use laissez faire as an excuse to gouge the public and exploit the poor.

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.           CONFUCIUS

What shocks the virtuous philosopher delights the chameleon poet.

Like two figures in the medieval Morality play, Pragmatism and Morality spar in the boxing ring of my brain.

Clean, hard-working, dependable, quiet type.' Good God! What kind of monster is this that they want. I am afraid that I could never work for a concern with a worldview like that.

I would very much like to know what the Founding Fathers would say if they could see these children being debauched to further the cause of Clearasil. However, I always suspected that democracy would come to this . . . "A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.

I am the avenging sword of taste and decency

To you character is a psychosis. Integrity is a complex.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment. Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half.

if you're dumb enough to get caught cheating, you probably don't belong on Wall Street.

to wall cross [where investors agree to receive nonpublic information, keep it confidential, and not trade on it] every

gardening leave—a legally required paid vacation to prevent conflicts of interest or sensitive information from passing from one bank to another.

manslaughter, not murder.

I can't take communism nor can you, but to cross this bridge I would hold hands with the Devil.

The issue for historians , then, is not whether we should make moral judgments, but how we can do so responsibly, by which I mean in such a way as to convince both the professionals and non-professionals who'll read our work that what we say makes sense.

It is impossible to test accurately how long a severed head remains conscious, if at all. The best estimate is between five and thirteen seconds.

I cannot subscribe to this modern idea that we should feel guilty about our role on earth

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.