Quotes About Ethics

What is the etiquette for betrayal?

Destroying the painting was out of the question: my soul is all stained and shagged with sin like a cigarette smoker's moustache but I am quite incapable of destroying works of art. Steal them, yes, cheerfully, it is a mark of respect and love, but destroy them, never.

it is always wise to do one's duty, however unpleasant that duty may seem to be. -Ozma

The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good.

Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

Because the Nome King intends to do evil is no excuse for my doing the same

The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good. Now, the Nome King had never tried to be good, so he was very bad indeed.

Fat babies! Don't they sound delicious? But I've never eaten any, because my conscience tells me it is wrong. If I had no conscience I would probably eat the babies and then get hungry again, which would mean that I had sacrificed the poor babies for nothing. No; hungry I was born, and hungry I shall die. But I'll not have any cruel deeds on my conscience to be sorry for.

Handsome is as handsome does

I think you are a very good tiger, said Dorothy, patting the huge head of the beast. In that you are mistaken, was the reply. I am a good beast, perhaps, but a disgracefully bad tiger. For it is the nature of tigers to be cruel and ferocious, and in refusing to eat harmless living creatures I am acting as no good tiger has ever before acted. That is why I left the forest and joined my friend the Cowardly Lion.

The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good. L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz, 1910

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

I didn't think about its being wrong to go in and try on the brooch; but I see now that it was and I'll never do it again. That's one good thing about me. I never do the same naughty thing twice

Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances.

The two most important things to remember in business are: to be aware of the consequential impact on ecology, and a caring relationship between employer and employee.

The thing is with the media, I have a love-hate relationship with [it]. [Journalists] are only doing their jobs and you can't get your own way all the time.

[Donald] Trump must divest because of his web of domestic and international business relationships that create a conflict of interest for him.

The relationship between fascism and robotics, for instance, it's very clear that it's going to become way more important as time goes by.

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.

Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants.

I have a troubled relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, not just because he kicked me out of a bar but also because it's become clear to me that he was not a good person.

We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.

When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.

Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.