Terms-and-conditions Philosopher Mugs

User Agreement: Have you at least pretended to read the terms and conditions?

"When faced with a tricky ethical issue, I always ask the question, 'What's in it for me?'"

"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?"

'The bad news is that our company is bankrupt. The good news is that we're only morally bankrupt.'

"In my class, I'm not interested in grades. I'm interested in you becoming a better person!"

"The answer you seek can be found in the syllabus."

'I don't know what all the fuss is about.'

Terms and conditions

''Congress shall make no law'... now, I wonder what they meant by that...?'

'If your cell phone has five hundred minutes, and you use one of them during this class, how long will you be in detention?'

Always a popular motive: Hunter and Prey.

"Our best strategy may be to destigmatize embezzlement."

Clever youth stating that he considers Shakespeare overrated

'I like to use the Law as a jumping off point.'

"Avoid hungry bears."

"Republican striptease"

'Miss Jones, bring me my scruples.'

"It's a nice story, Mr. Fergus, but why do you always write in the passive voice?" "I suppose because I've been a taxpayer all my life."

'Why should I feel bad? We're part of natures original recycling program!'

Vegetarian Professor

"Tighten our belts? Why can't you sell your soul to some nasty American corporation?"

"A million monkeys typing for a million years might come up with Hamlet, but they could never direct it."

"It's little Pharma. Want some baby aspirin?"

"I know the rules on cloning, but it's easier to ask forgiveness than ask permission."

“What we have here is an old moral compass. How did it come into your possession?”

How To Keep Promises

"We're not too concerned about him not graduating. We've only made it to tenth grade so we're already proud."

'You're taking my life completely out of context.'

'We'll just run it past the ethics committee, and we'll be on our way.'

Some really righteous person turned out to be morally bankrupt today...

'Before our weapons are used to destroy the planet we should drink the profit away!'

"There it is, son, your four years at Princeton."