Quotes About Ethics

any right is always coupled with a responsibility

You must base everything on these three rules: behave well, speak well, act well.

Preferiría que estuviera vivo y encarcelado que muerto como un héroe

500 turmans for the live and virginity of an innocent girl.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand. He that gives good advice and sets a good example, builds with both hands. But he that gives good advice and sets a bad example, builds with one hand and tears down with the other.

Journalists make lousy politicians because they think they always need to tell the truth. —STEPHEN HARPER

Nobody ever tells you when you go into police work that it will require dishonesty.

Katie assured him that she was professionally nonjudgmental—which was not true; she was the opposite and was revolted by his crimes.

Then he offered the colonel $6 million, a bribe from Pablo Escobar to call off the hunt. Better yet, the officer explained, "Continue the work, but do not do yourself or Pablo Escobar any real damage." Pablo also wanted a list of any snitches inside his own organization. Sometimes the fate of an entire nation can hinge on the integrity of one man.

The system did not punish offenders the way she believed they ought to be punished.

The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.

It was always difficult to maintain author integrity when the facts did not support the sensationalism required by the employers, and best not to put oneself in such a position.

we must refuse to speak in sanitized clinical euphemisms like calling adulteries "affairs," fornication "dating," and perverts "partners" because God uses frank words for deplorable sin so we will feel its sickness without anesthesia.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I can't tell lies.

The unwillingness of the rich guy to take advantage of being a rich guy for fear of looking like a rich guy was a chain of logic too Ouroborosian to ponder for too long.

Mark Halperin

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

Humankind, or at least American-kind, will lose its edge as we produce more and more pipsqueaks and everyone gets nicer. Whole generations of pipsqueaks will be so fucking nice you won't be able to tell a man from a woman...And it will get worse and worse as people mistake nice for good. HItler was nice, supposedly, most of the time. A lot of good that did...

Honor is a complex and important matter best served by doing the right thing.

Though it would take a long time for him to understand the principle, it was that to be paid for one's joy is to steal.

Because two propositions can be true at once, he said. Because the world is imperfect. Because we are imperfect. Because sometimes we're called upon to do terrible things. And because we define ourselves in dying, which is, he indicated by motioning with his head toward the arena, what this is. Give us at least that.

Then in the fifth century an Algerian bishop, Augustine of Hippo, wrote the enduring apologia for murder on the battlefield, the concept of "just war." Augustine, considered one of the fathers of the Catholic Church, declared that the validity of war was a question of inner motive. If a pious man believed in a just cause and truly loved his enemies, it was permissible to go to war and to kill the enemies he loved because he was doing it in a high-minded way.