Quotes About Ethics

It should never be about what side of the fence you are on, but, rather: what is right; fair; just; and above all, what is humane. If not, we are of no significance. We are nothing — certainly, we have nothing to offer the world of any great importance. By doing so — by doing what is right, fair, just, and humane — we ameliorate ourselves to becoming honorable people, which many of us have yet to attain.

Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them.

Before the war on terror, the U.S. military had a well-earned reputation for the humane treatment of prisoners of war.

Why is torture the worst interrogation method? Produces unreliable information Negative world opinion Subject to war crimes trials Used as a tool for compliance

Mitchell and Jessen were advocating torture tactics that had been originally designed to break men and force them to spout lies and propaganda, but they claimed that these techniques were not torture, and that they would elicit the truth, not lies and propaganda. In the upside-down world of the global war on terror, their explanations were widely accepted.

Morgan's studies show that the use of the SERE simulated torture techniques impairs memory and prompts inaccurate answers from those subjected to the tactics. Mitchell and Jessen's methods, Morgan said, create a mental state that makes it difficult to remember information accurately—making the credibility of all statements suspect.

You can be seduced to do this," Zimbardo added. "It's easy for people to delude themselves into thinking that they will be the ones who will do it the right way. Self-delusion is a powerful force for evil.

That's what I think more and more. There's nothing. No God, no Devil, nothing. No damnation, no redemption. There's just us and what we do. The things we achieve or the mess we make.

Research today has become more about seeing if something can be done versus judging if it should. It's knowledge for the sake of knowledge, regardless of the impact on the world.

morality is often the first casualty to progress.

shoot anybody that comes into view." "what about you?" "no, don't shoot me.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

They are slaves who dare not beIn the right with two or three.

I don't believe in princerple,But oh I du in interest.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu,An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.

Ef you take a sword an' dror it, An' go stick a feller thru, Guv'ment ain't to answer for it, God'll send the bill to you.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

We're professionals. People make deals, they need to stick to them. That's the way it works, if it's going to work at all.

HCCIC by the C suite at HHS is a profound statement of having the moral courage to do what's right for the health sector

Right and wrong isn't a matter of ethics, rather it's the geography in which you reside and whose control you're under. Tallinn Manual 2.0 is based largely on western international humanitarian law.

There has been a failure in moral courage by the technologically astute to step in and lead, selflessly. There's always a product pitch at the end of whitepapers. We need to remove the product pitches and replace it with objective and viable action steps