Quotes About Ethics

you can take the man out of the evil, but can you take the evil out of the man?

The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you're caught or not.

Pour que le mal triomphe, il suffit que les gens bien ne fassent rien.

The devil will tell a thousand truths to sell one lie.'

Their life is a lie. I would rather live an honest life than an admired

I believe that the difference between Heaven and Hell is not so much the climate as the company.

between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.' " She looked up.

There was no path to victory when you couldn't attack into the heart of enemy territory for fear of collateral damage. Collateral damage! God help you if you killed some civilians, even if those were the very people supporting and enabling our enemies. Had that philosophy held sway in World War II, every American would now be speaking Japanese or German.

Bribing was a subtle and even gracious art. It was considered in better taste to bribe indirectly. For example, one could offer a generous donation to a 'charitable' cause, chaired by the official's wife; or sell him a piece of property at a fraction of its actual value; or buy something from him (e.g. a painting) for a sum far in excess of its value.

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

Richard Reeves

What makes us moral beings is that...there are some acts we believe we ought to die rather than commit...But now suppose that one has in fact done one of the things one could not have imagined doing, and finds that one is still alive. At that point, one's choices are suicide, a life of bottomless self-disgust, and an attempt to live so as never to do such a thing again. Dewey recommends the third choice.

If pain were all that mattered, it would be as important to protect the rabbits from the foxes as to protect the Jews from the Nazis.

The California real estate commissioner refused to take any action, asserting that while regulations prohibited licensed agents from engaging in "unethical practices," the exploitation of racial fear was not within the real estate commission's jurisdiction.

The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.

Well, you know, it ain't nothin' out of the ordinary happened to Olive and me. Happens hundreds of times every day. But we're still livin' in the dark ages, I guess. Cain't just go to a doctor and say you want an abortion. Be ten thousand people that's got nothin' better to do than trying to run everybody else's lives, and they'd put you in jail, or shoot you or somethin'.

Ä°yi bir iÅŸin nitelikleriyle iyi bir karakterin nitelikleri art?k örtüÅŸmüyordu.

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Hangi kötülüÄŸe tahammül edeceÄŸimiz hangi iyiliÄŸin peÅŸinde olduÄŸumuza baÄŸl?d?r.

Özellikle yeni bir ÅŸirket sat??a ç?kt???nda, kar??l?kl? baÄŸl?l?k korkunç zarar görür. Firma kurulduÄŸunda, herkesten fazla mesai ve s?k? çal??ma talep edilmiÅŸtir; ancak firma halka aç?ld???nda -yani hisseler ilk kez halka arz edildiÄŸinde- kurucular ÅŸirketi yüklü bir para kar??l??? satar ve alt kademe çal??anlar? ortada b?rak?r.

There is no such thing as a neutral educational process

There is no good or evil, only spirit and matter. Only movement toward the light - and away from it.

Killing was never a good idea unless there were no other ideas.

You can steal in this country, you can rape and murder, you can bribe public officials, you can pollute the morals of the young, you can burn your place of business down for the insurance money, you can do almost anything you want, and if you act with just a little caution and common sense you'll never even be indicted. But if you don't pay your income tax, Grofield, you will go to jail.