Quotes about Ethical Evaluation

To me there is not only right or wrong but many shades in between...The real tragedies in life are not in choices between right and wrong. Only the most callous of persons choose what they know to be wrong. Real tragedy comes [illegible] in a dilemma of evaluating what is right...Real dilemmas are difficulties of the soul, provoking agonies, which you in your world of black and white can't even begin to comprehend.

I became convinced that almost all the priests of that religion, the writers, were immoral, and for the most part men of bad, worthless character, much inferior to those whom I had met in my former dissipated and military life;

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can't say that.

The questions were, 'What did you accomplish?' 'What will you accomplish next?' 'How can you improve?'" "That's it?" "Not quite. The question on the back was, 'Are you embracing the values?

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

I must give an account for what I've done.

We do whatever we enjoy doing. Whether is happens to be judged good or evil is a matter for others to decide.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions

Are you going to be the kind of person who always pays the asking price?" my mother demanded. "Or the kind who fights to find out what something's really worth?

There are people in the world who deserve paradise for their thoughts and hell for their deeds.

we are to hate both the evil people and their evil deeds.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

The author's Socrates admonishes paramount awareness human limitations. If we do good to those we evaluate as good and evil to those we evaluate at the evil, and we are wrong, we have been made the world less just.

it is by justice that we can authentically measure man's value or his nullity... the absence of justice is the absence of what makes him a man

It is by justice that we can authentically measure a mans value or nullity.... the absence of justice is the absence of what makes him a man

It is by justice that we can authentically measure a mans value or nullity.... the absence of justice is the absence of why makes him a man

virtuoso, aunque se jacte de ello, le reprenderé por desestimar lo más valioso y sobrestimar lo que tiene menos valor.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Everyone should be judged by works and attitude , not birth place.

Is one life worth more than another? I have never thought so.

There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?

The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.

You could be close to perfect, you could pass all their tests, but a cheaters a cheater, and they always pass up the best.