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Everything seems immoral until the person commits it.
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
Bribery is against the law, and you know it. But it's not against the law to make a profit, is it? So it can't be against the law for me to bribe someone in order to make a fair profit, can it? No, of course not!
Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.
Ethics is doing more than the law requires and less than the law allows.
It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
The morality of a society is often dangerous and very unethical.
I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.
Ill-gotten gains work evil.
The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.
Why pay for an undesirable outcome with someone else? For the same money, you could have paid me to stay at home and do nothing.
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.
Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.
Without 'consent' in any human interactions, there's an ethical violation.
It is immoral not to tell.
Better to do the right thing than feel guilty.
If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!
There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
The organization likes to do their dirty business where no one can see it.
I find shoes difficult to be ethical about ...
A transaction is a commercial favor.
I never condone wrongdoing in any area
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.
Abhorrent and beyond inappropriate, reachable only through hours of hiking into the Realm of Really Goddam Wrong.
Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don't get caught, then you haven't violated any ethics.
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.
It's not right to profit from another person's suffering.
Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is right or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.
The nature of business is swindling.
Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done.
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It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.
You're not allowed to lure people into spending their money or betting their money based on false representations.
Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.
Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'
Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.
For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.
The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.
So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.
It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense
Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.
break the rules pay the price
If there's no ethically correct solution, act irrationally.
Sometimes, for the sake of the larger good, one has to do things that may not appear right at the time. Perhaps, a laudable end can justify some questionable means.
I'm not much into rear window ethics.
Putting yourself in the place of others ... is what thinking ethically is all about.
Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.
I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.
I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.
Often people have an instant intuition that an action is immoral, and then struggle, often unsuccessfully, to come up with reasons why it is immoral.169
Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing - or more complicated - than it is today.
The lure of heady profits of the late 1990's spawned abuses and excesses. With strict enforcement and higher ethical standards, we must usher in a new era of integrity in corporate America.
An odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.
Ethics change with technology.
It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.
Rules are meant to be broken.
What is right is not always the same as what is legal
Rewards corrupt the unprincipled.
Actions that exemplify the limitations of a singular devotion to the profit motive, also draw a troublesome distinction between what is legal and what is moral.
It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.
Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.
In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.
If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.
We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power.
Lack of ethics is so ingrained in the financial industry that they are not even aware of it any more. It's just business as usual for them.
Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest
Honesty is the best policy. It's also the most profitable.
Too many people are setting up ways to raise money that are questionable.
I was doing a cheap sneaky job for people I didn't like, but that's what you hire out for, chum. They pay the bills, you dig the dirt.
I don't see anything immoral, unethical or illegal for a person in a democratic society to be able to spend their own money on the health care of themself or a loved one.
Ethics are more important than laws.
The thing about using other people's money is they're going to set the rules.
Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.
Sometimes decent people must do indecent things.
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
You cannot ask everyone to behave ethically.
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine.
Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.
Today everything's a conflict of interest.
You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.
The market has no morality
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross.
People who had previously purchased a "green" product were significantly more likely to both lie and steal than those who had purchased the conventional product. Their demonstration of ethical behavior subconsciously gave them license to act unethically when the chance arose.
It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore
You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.
It's a normal way of doing business.
There's nothing so ill advised as attributing a metonymic value to inanimate objects.
Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has the moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.
I believe rules are meant to be broken.
Let me tell you what's more immoral. Doing nothing. Sitting back in your comfortable chair in your comfortable home thinking that just because you sponsor a child in Zambia you're doing enough.
Spoofing? No. Ponzi scheme? Not at all! Just finance. Legal as hell.
Ethics are my veiled mistress; I love them, but know not what they are.
If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.
The law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy. Let us speak of the first.
Politics is ethics writ large.
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.