Quotes About Ethics

Like physicians we have a duty to 'do no harm' (..). I argue that we can only do this through recognition of our own weaknesses and a willingness to understand how we might be tempted into positions of false omnipotence, moral superiority and boundary violations. (..) Like Guggenbuhl-Craig, I believe there is a 'bogeyman' within every therapist, longing for control (1971, p. 55).

So what is the moral of this story? The answer out of Cajamarca is: Do what you can. You can't change skin, can't fix tongues, can't brighten eyes, but power is for the taking. Steal it, lie for it, kill if you have to. You can win the girl with the interesting eyes. Looking

Entomologists trap insects in their killing jars and then pin their corpses to cards, and no one utters a single squeak of protest. For that matter, let a gentleman hunt a tiger for its skin, and everyone applauds his courage. But to shoot a dragon for science? That, for some reason, is cruel.

Readers of these memoirs, know that I have never been very religious. I am not ashamed of this fact. I have endeavoured to be a good woman nonetheless, and to do good for those around me.

where the more distant phrasing can lend a veneer of respectability to the otherwise prurient-seeming habit of a naturalist spying on other creatures' intimate lives).

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

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.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Which is colder, the hand or the gun?

there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

Let's face it, the subject of campaign finance is not always scintillating. But it's incredibly important.

I think there were bad actors in the government and bad actors in the finance, mortgage, markets industries that need to be called out and held accountable.

People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.

Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous favors to the corporations that funded their election campaigns.

The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.