Quotes About Ethics

criminality was particularly horrifying in a president who had campaigned on a law-and-order ticket.

abrazaba cualquier causa perdida que apareciera en las noticias, desde el maltrato a los animales hasta el desarme nuclear.

mind back to his dilemma. What do we do in politics

Ne t'en fais pas. Les scrupules sont bons pour les privilégiés. Pour nous qui sommes nés pauvres, notre seul salut est dans la ruse. Elle n'aimait pas entendre son frère parler ainsi et affirmer que leur enfance difficile excusait tout, ce qu'il faisait parfois.

He was a good man, ma'am,' she said. 'Never raised a hand to me.' The Queen did not know what to say about a man whose virtue was that he did not beat his wife.

My father hated people who preached about morality. We're all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn't count. It's when you want so badly to do something wrong - when you're about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor's wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble - that's when you need the rules.

My father hated people who preached about morality. We're all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn't count. It's when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you're about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor's wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble—that's when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn't wave it until you're about to put it to the test.

Los que hemos nacido pobres tenemos que valernos de artimañas para conseguir lo que queremos. Los escrúpulos son cosa de los privilegiados.

?i am aflat c? exist? hot?râri dificile È™i c?, uneori, nu avem cum s? È™tim ce e bine È™i ce e r?u de f?cut.

He who sups with the devil must use a long spoon.

O código de cavalaria não autorizava a nobreza francesa a ficar escondida atrás dos arqueiros mal nascidos, e aquela avançou para entrar em confronto com os cavaleiros ingleses – abdicando assim dos benefícios que a posição em que se encontravam lhes conferia.

The Antwerpers hated nobody, except those who did not pay their debts.

Newspapers are supposed to tell the truth!"Woody said, his voice rising with furious indignation. "They can't just make up lies!""Yes, they can,"she said. "But it's not fair!""Welcome to the real world,"said his mother.

Mama lui îl implorase s?-È™i p?streze convingerile pentru sine, dar el nu putea: avea È™aptesprezece ani È™i, pentru el, lucrurile erau fie corecte, fie greÈ™ite.

What is wrong with this war is that we are on the wrong side. We are the bad guys. That is why kids dodge the draft; that is why the Vietnamese won't fight; that is why we kill women and children; that is why the generals lie to the politicians, and the politicians lie to the reporters, and the newspapers lie to the public. After that, his

A Man Is Known By The Mice He Keeps

But, oh Viv, right doesn't make might.

They didn't mind so much when I was a dumb logger and got into a hassle; that's excusable, they say, that's a hard-workin' feller blowing off steam, they say. But if you're a gambler, if they know you to get up a back-room game now and then, all you have to do is spit slantwise and you're a goddamned criminal.

Watson. He is our better self.

And so now, today, one cannot think of the greats—Kant, Hegel, Spinoza, Marx, Fichte, Freud, Nietzsche, Einstein, Schopenhauer, Leibniz, Schelling—the whole Germanic sphere—without thinking, at some point, of Auschwitz and Treblinka, Sobibor and Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and Chelmno. My God, they have names, as if they were human.

one of the first steps toward an integral postmodernity is the development and establishment of a genuine environmental ethics, or a moral and ethical stance to nonhuman holons.

I had my own test, better than Turing's: when a computer could genuinely convince me that it wanted to commit suicide.

Careful readers will note that the guy who "won" was hardly a shining example of birding ethics. What kind of person would pay thousands of dollars for flights and car rentals to chase a rare bird and then try to avoid paying a couple of bucks to get into a state park? Real birders carry their share, do their part, try to support the resource that supports birding.

As I have said, it may be difficult to define civilization, but it isn't so difficult to recognize barbarism.