Quotes About Ethics

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.

Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

A joke isn't yours. It's used and you don't know where it's been.

I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.

Here's a thought for sweat shop owners: Air Conditioning. Problem solved.

To insult someone we call him 'besti*l'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.

Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners

Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder.

There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders.

"Well-- I don't know-- the cops might not respond too well to you looking through their windows with a telescope."

The ultimate downfall of the computerized holographic receptionist was that there was no amount of flattery, flirtation or chocolate that could convince one to lie for you.

The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.

Absolutely. Justice served with a side of pineapple. That's what I'm here for.

I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.

Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism.

Yes, but humans are more important than animals, ' said Brutha.'This is a point of view often expressed by humans, ' said Om.

It's a terrible thing, what we did, " said Francis abruptly. "I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It's a shame. I feel bad about it.