Quotes About Ethics

family. Boomer deserves better than a bullet. I don't care what he did, he deserves better than that.

If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

From those great eyesThe soul has fled:When faith is lost, when honor dies,The man is dead!

At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don't believe that it's when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he's able to do them, and that he does them well.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.

The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.

Her integrity was on the line.

The ancient world assigned a value to divinely approved order similar to the value we assign to human rights.

The protection of rights is inevitable if preservation of dignity is valued.

for a fallen soul, an act of wrong could, at time, feel very right, and that scared the hell out of me.

I'm a killer, not a thief.

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

Love of wisdom [philosophy] the guide of life.

It would be salutary, however, if we could retain our complacency in good conscience.

The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is going to live.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.

The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?

It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.

Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.