Quotes About Ethics

The essence of dietrologia is that it dismisses the notion that anyone could act purely for reasons of moral conviction.

Biological determinism is a blight on science. It implies that the way things are is the way they must be. [...] This position is wrong, both empirically and morally.

He who is less than just is less than man.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for hte negative case has not soberly weighted the prima facie presumption that any violence is wrong until the case for an exception has been made.

accountability. Now there is a word with a solid – indeed a solemn – pedigree. The Good Book itself tells us that on the Day of Judgement everyone shall be required to give an account of themselves.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

Leaders lie to each other and to their own people because they believe that doing so serves the national interest. And the sad fact is that lying sometimes does make good strategic sense.

Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool.

twisted form of Omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, and frankly, it's protected many a bad doctor and some true butchers.

First Do No Harm,24

Neither of you ever let fear put chains on your conscience.

The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

I don't care what party you belong to or what office you're seeking—you owe it to your constituents, to the people you're looking to serve, to get it right. If you say something is so, then it ought to be so.

Once, he reminded himself, I studied hard to learn to save lives. Now I must educate myself in how to take one.

Imaginó alguna vez Mark Zuckerberg que su red social serviría para que alguien decidiera si matar o no a alguien? —Sonrió—. Es un poco como preparar una cita a ciegas, ¿no?»

um nicht in einem völkerrechtswidrigen, unmoralischen Krieg zu kämpfen." "Der Reporter

The disparities of income and wealth in the world today are an affront to any reflective person.

No one will be buried with the epitaph 'He maximised shareholder value

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.