Quotes About Ethics

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

Sure good is good, but good is something that nobody know. Good is a ghost. You can't get pocket money from good. Jamaica better off bad, because that type of bad work.

You think this is about setting aright what is askew, disorder back into order. That is the shit men think, to make any wicked action right in their eyes.

What is more immoral than war?

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

All universal moral principles are idle fantasies.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

C?t lõi c?a ni?m tin không ph?i do th? thu?t, mà ??n t? tính cách. Chúng ta ???c tin t??ng b?i cách chúng ta s?ng, không ph?i vì v? ngoài bóng b?y hay phÆ°Æ¡ng pháp giao ti?p chuyên nghi?p.

Integrity is an all-or-nothing virtue (like being half pregnant, there's no such thing as semi-integrity).

In her zeal to be a professional negotiator, she behaved like an amateur human being.

Warren Buffett advised that before you take any morally questionable action, you should ask yourself if you would want your mother to read about it in the newspaper.

I have never met a man who wanted to be bad," writes George MacLeod. "The mystery of man is that he is bad when he wants to be good.

There is no Death with Dignity when people choose to die because health care economics and the social services system prevent life with dignity.

Mi papá dice que no, que una cosa es matarla para comerla y otra matarla por odio, que eso no debemos. Así que la gallinita de la verga le sigue dando huevos al vecino.

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

Sometimes, good people got on the wrong side of an argument. Sometimes, bad people got on the right side. The truth wasn't anyone's to control.

This kind of thing is why chivalry's dead." "Chivalry was a bunch of rules to justify men in chainmail burning villages down. I can live without that.

Thus Hawkes (1975)maintained that pornography is not explicit sex, but 'uncaring sex,' but could add that '[t]o me, censorship is pornographic.

the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.

The manipulated millions could be aroused or soothed by any lies. The guiding light of journalism was no stronger than a glow-worm.

What gave these krauts a right to say who should be born and who shouldn't, and who could live and be let alone, and who would get caught and killed?

EPICURUS WROTE, "Empty is that philosopher's argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use in a medical art that does not cast out the sicknesses of bodies, so too there is no use in philosophy, unless it casts out the suffering of the soul.

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.