Drake Bennett:

Rather than a guide to a properly lived life, personal morality becomes a spur that grows out of guilt, or an after-the-fact story we tell ourselves about actions already decided on. And rather than a moral compass, what we may have is closer to a thermostat, stubbornly set to a comfortable moral mediocrity.

Scott Adams:

Imagine you could make fuel out of poor people.

Obviously using humans for fuel would be wrong and you wouldn't do it. But I'm not done confusing your moral compass.

Now let's say the people who are used as fuel are volunteers, of a sort.

Benedict Carey:

Studies of people who do unpalatable things, whether by choice, or for reasons of duty or economic necessity, find that people's moral codes are more flexible than generally understood.

Richard Sennett:

The evidence suggests that from an executive perspective, the most desirable employees may no longer necessarily be those with proven ability and judgment, but those who can be counted on to follow orders and be good "team players."

Atul Gawande:

Let us look for the positive deviants.

Guy Kawasaki:

Never ask anyone to do something that you wouldn't do.

The nature of temptation