Quotes About Ethics

Cultural norms do not create morality, only collectivize and objectify it, and institutions may go a step further and sacralize it.

Since one's moral identity is socially constructed, one must always be prepared to justify -both to others and oneself- why one chose one course of action over another. Justification means showing that my actions actually emanated from values that we all share.

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To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.

which would be the most serious littering offense ever, way worse than sneaking away after your dog drops a deuce on someone's lawn)

Studies show that most people rate themselves well above average when it comes to ethical behavior. In fact, a newsmagazine poll asked people whom they thought would get to heaven. Bill Clinton was a toss-up, getting 52 percent backing from respondents. Former basketball star Michael Jordan did better, at 62 percent. Mother Teresa topped the two American men with 79 percent. But she was not the highest. That honor went to "yourself," with 87 percent.

To Trump, he was just up against Sally Yates, who was, he steamed, "such a cunt.

the Khashoggi debacle provided yet another example of the bizarre and inexplicable relationships that Trump and his family had formed with bad guys around the world,

It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything.… Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.

resisters, working in the Trump White House, who had come to see themselves as patriots protecting the country from the president they worked for.

Who, among the right-minded and reasonably competent, would willingly work with Rudy?

This was why he had so naturally cottoned to the "fake news" label. "I've made stuff up forever, and they always print it," he bragged.

The New York real estate deals were dirty, the Atlantic City ventures were dirty, the Trump airline was dirty, Mar-a-Lago, the golf courses, and the hotels all dirty. No reasonable candidate could have survived a recounting of even one of these deals. But somehow a genial amount of corruption had been figured into the Trump candidacy- that, after all, was the platform he was running on. I'll do for you what a tough businessman does for himself.

the president was likely a fool and certainly a liar.

People who had the money to bribe, who fundamentally believed that anyone could be bribed, and who had outsize influence on the legal structures that might otherwise restrict bribery, had become major foreign policy players in key parts of the world.

Trump certainly ran his business as though it were a criminal enterprise.

He would never be able to untangle his holdings and interests—including big investments in the Middle East—in a way that would satisfy ethics watchdogs.

By the time Bannon and Priebus were back in Washington, three blue-chip firms had said no. All of them were afraid they would face a rebellion among the younger staff if they represented Trump, afraid Trump would publicly humiliate them if the going got tough, and afraid Trump would stiff them for the bill. In the end, nine top firms turned them down.

Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends' wives into bed.

Bob and Rebekah Mercer, who had set themselves up as almost professional fools.

Still, power provides its own excuses for social lapses.

The theologian and the executioner have been intimates throughout history.

there are no devils. Inhumanity is the real evil