Flexible Ethics Quotes

My school of thought is, anything goes, but I can't do that anymore.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

A conscience is like a boat or a car. If you feel you need one, rent it.

I don't believe in rules. It's different for everybody. Everyone has to make their own decision and find out what's comfortable for them.

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far.'

Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles!

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in order to down somebody, all means can be used. Nothing will lead me astray from the path that I have chosen.

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

Any way that you can get the end result is valid, whatever it takes.

Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.

There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.