Quotes About Ethics

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

To remain pure a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

People feel at home with low moral standards. It is scruples that put them off.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

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I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

The business of business should not just be about money, it should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed.

treatment of the Jews was wrong

I am a Christian, you know, Julia.' So am I. But I'm not above staying out of jail any way I can.

You're saying that wealthy men can commit sins that would condemn a poor man.

It all depended on what Walter decided. If - if he really did care about Rose Barum, she wouldn't stand in his way. It was so glaringly indecent to hold on to one's husband if he wanted someone else. The trouble was that she didn't know what Walter did want, and this was one of those questions you really couldn't ask.

Is this how you get dates? You drag women into your car, lock them inside and don't let them out till they've agreed to go out with you?

to side with the scrotes.

After all, it was easy enough to be virtuous if there was no temptation.

We tend to give a moral weight to the things with which we're most comfortable, don't you think?

But perhaps do-gooders could wear lacy bras too.

They were flawed and cruel, but there was no intent to kill. Not within the meaning of the law. And the law's all we have to hold things together.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media will only refer to partial birth abortion as 'what its opponents refer to as partial birth abortions.' What do its supporters call it? Casual Fridays? Bean-with-bacon potato chip dip? Uh . . . Steve?

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

'Sicario' is about how the Western world reacts toward problems outside of its borders. Should we become monsters in order to fight the monsters? It's not about the cartels. The movie could have been set in Africa or the Middle East.