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Ethics Quotes
"React with how can I help you versus how can I hurt you."
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"I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl."
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"Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics."
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"All selling should spring from service."
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"The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors."
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"Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork."
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"Calumny is a vice of curious constitution trying to kill it keeps it alive leave it to itself and it will die a natural death."
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"The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?"
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"Humans are at their best when alleviating the suffering of another living thing."
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"If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right."
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"Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? But in her case the choice was to keep me."
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"Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now?"
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"If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation."
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"Responsibility is not doing as we are told, that's obedience. Responsibility is doing what is right."
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"The sinner runs when no one is pursuing himMeaning: one's guilt will always haunt or live with him."
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"If you or I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world."
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"No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others whose opinion, and even whose wish, is entitled to a greater amount of consideration than his."
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"If no one has boundaries, how can there be any transgression?"
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"No one can read the books of Moses with any care without understanding that law can be a means of grace. Certainly this law is of one spirit with the Son of Man who says, "I was hungry and you fed me. I was naked and you clothed me." This kind of worldliness entails the conferring of material benefit over and above mere equity. It means a recognition of and respect for both the intimacy of God's compassion and the very tangible forms in which it finds expression."
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"Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't you let me catch you remarkin' on their ways like you was so high and and mighty! Yo' folks might be better'n the Cunninghams but it don't count for nothin' the way you're disgracin' 'em."
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"He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business."
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"Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong."
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"There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are."
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"On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence."
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"The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster."
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"One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion."
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"Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless."
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"Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy."
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"Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-managed."
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"Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it."
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"Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day."
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"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."
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"I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct."
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"But we-' she glanced at him as if to ascertain his position, 'we see each other only now and then-''Like lights in a storm-''In the midst of a hurricane,' she concluded, as the window shook beneath the pressure of the wind."
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"Harry, life isn't simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you're in the thick of things, sometimes it's hard for us to tell. You didn't do what you did for your own benefit. You did it so that you could protect others. That doesn't make it right - but it doesn't make you a monster, either. You still have free will. You still get to choose what you will do and what you will be and what you will become."
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