Moral Thinkers Gifts

'At least I'm not accused of being envious, lustful, greedy, prideful, gluttonous or wrathful.'

The Mother Of Damocles

"We need to make some cuts. We'll start with integrity, accountability, openness, and transparency."

Ethics exam cheater.

'This time we're going to do things right. And if that doesn't work, we'll just go back to stealing.'

Church leader at desk has 3 boxes marked 'Black', 'White' and 'Gray Area'.

"Think you're pretty manly, eh? OK, put the gun down and let's have a fair fight."

"Call me?"

'Loved your bit on market share, Felton - perfect blend of plausibility and outright deception.'

'I'm a vegetarian.' - 'If it's so wrong to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?'

He avoids wrath, envy, lust, greed, gluttony and sloth -- the problem is he's proud of it!

"Eat my dust!"

"Buzz off, Fly-boy. We don't need more accessories."

"Why is there so much emphasis put on our stupid race?" "I think people are more interested in it as a metaphor than as an actual race." "Slow and steady wins the race, that sort of thing." "That would explain why I always lose..." "Bartender, another please." "Maybe you should slow down." "You never learn do you?"

Slavery Reparations

Corporate Ethics Department, how may I help you?

"Mr. McMurdo has been called 'guilty as the day is long.' And yet, do not biblical scholars tell us a day can mean many things?"

'I'm re-enacting a battle with my conscience.'

"I think you refuse to admit your god condones slavery, because doing so would be an admission you are more moral than he is. And that conflicts with your Borg programming."

'Nothing about the evils of corporate downsizing?'

My mother says the bible is full of good people, like Moses, who brought kindness to the world. That alone makes it a worthy basis for morality in today's world. Moses, Numbers 31:9-18(NIV), look it up.

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'How much stuff can I get away with and still go to heaven?'

'You're in luck. Business ethics is a gray area.'

'What I lack in cognitive flexibility, I make up for in moral flexibility.'

"And here is where we started putting profits before people."

"There may be a moral equivalent of war, but, by God, there is not moral equivalent of money."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil clowns is that good clowns do nothing."

"World War III? Hmm. O.K., but, remember, nobody gets hurt."

'As we all know, the appearance of honesty is the best policy....'

'Now you see, that's EXACTLY what we should try to avoid here.'

'This business about the meek inheriting the Earth -- can't anything be done about it?'

"It's my conscience... It's all achy"

'I chose here since heaven won't allow you to take your bonus and golden parachute with you.'

"They have oat fiber, wheat fiber, and rice fiber, but no moral fiber."