Quotes About Ethics

Anne looked disapproval, but she felt she had entrusted her hundred pounds to the right sort of stock broker.

When we poor blacks take bribes, we perform what we are bribed to perform, and the law discovers us in consequence. The English take and do nothing. I admire them.

Once a cad, always a cad

He hadn't a God, he hadn't a lover – the two usual incentives to virtue.

O escritor americano Philip Roth, falecido neste maio de 2018, insistia que a literatura não é o "concurso de beleza moral" em que hoje se tenta transformá-la a golpes de politicamente correto, inclusão social e análogos.

But the lovers get away unpunished and consequently recommend crime.

Not even to herself dare she blame Helen. She could not assess her trespass by any moral code; it was everything or nothing. Morality can tell us that murder is worse than stealing, and group most sins in an order all must approve, but it cannot group Helen. The surer its pronouncements on this point, the surer may we be that morality is not speaking. Christ was evasive when they questioned Him. It is those that cannot connect who hasten to cast the first stone.

Money: give Mr Bast money, and don't bother about his ideals. He'll pick those up for himself.

Nor am I concerned with duty. I'm concerned with the characters of various people whom we know, and how, things being as they are, things may be made a little better.

the actual deed of sex seemed to him unimaginative, and best veiled in night. Between men it is inexcusable, between man and woman it may be practised since nature and society approve, but never discussed nor vaunted.

People lost their humanity, and took values as arbitrary as those in a pack of playing-cards.

The sense of purity is a puzzling and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts as one with morality. But it is a dangerous guide, and can lead us away not only from what is gracious, but also from what is good.

We have morals and behaviour also, and I don't think this continual secrecy improves them.

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

The predatory barons, kings, and princelings of the Middle Ages had bred a swarm of rulers with the political ethics of highway robbers and, for the most part, the intellects of stable boys.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a grave danger to the privacy of the individual.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior." - Earl Warren

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

No one may abuse the truth with impunity.

Truth is not mathematical concept that needs to be proved with equations. Its singleness demands an intact moral compass, with certainties about what is good and bad.

The transformation of newspapers and news channels into corporations which made them addicts of profit (and therefore rating and online clicks), and that's eventually left less space for boring truths and facts, couldn't have been demonstrated more bluntly. . It was as if Trump were reminding the press of the old journalistic adage: "Follow the money.