Quotes About Ethics

It's amazing […] how perfectly honest people who would starve rather than steal sixpence, will steal books without compunction.

Do you really think I'm bad?" "Of course, Jane. Every woman is, if given the chance.

Algorithms of Oppression

Facebook and its counterparts don't operate like courts; there is no case law, no checks and balances, and—until recently—no due process. The judges (content moderators) are not appointed or elected by voters, unlike in well-functioning democracies. There are simply no systems of accountability to the process and, as such, the same image that might be banned for one user can be allowed for another.

She meditated upon a lie. This is the essence of temptation.

How frequently do we rush through our day making decision after decision, touching lives in this way or that, with no thought of what corruption has tainted those decisions?

The law lied when it said he had declined the services of a lawyer.

Pete Rose gets banned for life for gambling while the drug addicts are allowed back after a year; and then they get extra chances after that. Baseball is saying, in effect, that gambling is worse than drugs. How do kids make sense out of that?

And I don't like the Mantle who refused to sign baseballs in the clubhouse before the games. Everybody else had to sign, but Little Pete forged Mantle's signature. So there are thousands of baseballs around the country that have been signed not by Mickey Mantle, but by Pete Previte.

Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

1. Bullying is not okay. Period. 2. Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people. 3. If your sincerely-held religious beliefs require you to bully children, then your beliefs are fucked up.

Isaac: "Besides, is it really stealing if you're stealing from an asshole?" Lena: "I'd have to double-check, but I don't think the criminal code includes an asshole clause.

Judge not, lest ye be punched in the face for being a self-righteous prick.

Besides, is it really stealing if you're stealing from an asshole?" "I'd have to double-check, but I don't think the criminal code includes an asshole clause.

He found it peculiar the way these adventurers thought anything they found was "rightfully" theirs. Why couldn't they come out and admit they were stealing from the monsters?

You don't do what's right because you know it will work out. You do it because you know it's right.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

If done right, kidnapping can be a positive experience for everyone.

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

a national government is bad enough, but this administration is the largest collection of scoundrels and morons in recent memory.

even if it meant early release of a few low-level felons or minor mental defectives