Quotes About Ethics

They're both about the correct or proper way to do something. There is a correct and proper way to use words and there is a correct and proper way to behave with other people. And I behaved improperly with John and feel bad, so I compensate by obsessing with language, which is easier to control than behavior.

Would you rather have the lords and nobles back? What is Democracy for? Not so we can rob each other. Or cheat.' I said cheat and felt the teeth in it, the cleat, the cut, the eat.

Journalists are poorly paid and often alarmingly unconcerned about sources or facts, whilst many articles are an infuriating mixture of fact and comment.

We have, all of us, less control over our emotional states than we imagine, and not much more over our moral sensibilities.

The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.

While I was now fairly demoralized, as well as aflame with the prospect of an hour in his daughter's arms, the thought of using his car to debauch his bourgeois paradise was a perfidy at which I drew the line.

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given a A for adultery. Today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

Companies have three responsibilities: 1) make a profit, 2) satisfy employees, and 3) be socially responsible.

Anyone who hangs out on social media at all knows how effortlessly it can bring out the worst in us. Not me, of course, but everyone else. I'm an angel.

Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it.

Lawyers had abolished the simple concept of right and wrong, turning it into degrees of guilt.

In any decent civilization, healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

It's not a god he worships, it's the devil.

he said that for wickedness to succeed all it takes is for decent people to do nothing.

Now Savi was playing her part in making sure no other innocents got hurt by psychotic ideologues who believed they had an absolute right to use force to achieve their goal.

We fight them in a thousand small ways each day, my young friend. That is how decent people will triumph in the end.

several tech-types; heavily idealistic about total access they all sailed close to anarchistic beliefs, believing all information should be free.

I've never met a good politician.

Those who do not accept due process, who refuse to acknowledge the democratic mandate, are a cancer on society.

Politicians are its creatures, too. They are the easiest of all humans to corrupt.

Christ, chief, what do they do to these people? Are we working for psychopaths

Does my willingness to do my duty make the human race a bunch of dangerous killers?

Why don't Edenists believe, then? Our culture proscribes nothing providing it doesn't harm the majority.