Quotes About Ethics

Some people just needed to be stolen from.

Giving evidence against one's employers was the first step to unemployment.

You know something, Fowl? You did a good thing here. For its own sake. Not one penny of profit." Artemis grimaced. "I know! I'm appalled!

Sometimes, Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker would be thrown out a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down.

Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down?

And was his conscience not needling him, leeching some of the sweetness from his victory?

I often think I should just abandon the whole thing. I really do. Time travel could be a gift to humanity. Whoever controls it could do some real good for mankind. But you have to ask yourself, with humanity's track record, is that likely? - Professor Charles Smart

Spider-Man's Uncle Ben said it better: With great power comes great responsibility.

steal from the rich and give to the poor. Well, maybe just steal from the rich.

Killing the devil cannot be a sin.

I often think that an individual's character can be judged by what he considers worthy of celebration.

The man was an animal. Base and foul. In a just world he would be the prisoner and Conor a free man.

Saints are not allowed to lie, not even to demons.

Mooi schot.'... Artemis stak haar de munt toe. 'Nee,' zei Holly. 'Hou hem maar. Om je te helpen herinneren... dat er diep onder die lagen onbetrouwbaarheid toch nog een vonkje fatsoen is.

He could be like a modern-day Robin Hood: steal from the rich and give to the poor. Well, maybe just steal from the rich. One step at a time.

There was nothing on the TV. Except pay-per-view and I refuse to buy programmes, on principle. Except that chef guy with the foul mouth.

Sometimes Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker was thrown out of a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often.