Quotes About Ethics

if you can't treat this person properly there is something fundamentally wrong with your system.

The enemy must in some way be dehumanized, degraded to less than full human status. Collectively, the population [and soldiers] of the other country must become "gooks," "Nips," "Japs," "Krauts," or "Huns." One must first hide from the full humanity of the opponent before [one] is able to kill him. -- Rev William Mahedy

I have emphasized the religious roots of dishonoring the enemy and its toxic psychological results. However, any ideology that debases the enemy endangers the lives of soldiers while they fight.

Here the veterans grapple with the question of moral luck: Can any workings of bad luck produce cruel or evil actions in a good person ?

Unlike the Greeks, we believe that the dead are beyond harm, so we need often overlook the toxic residue left behind by disrespectful treatment of enemy dead.

In my eyes, refusing cake is an immoral act.

You kill, you lie, you rob, you hit old men and steal their boots. I only thank God you draw the line at swearing - it would have been just too dreadful otherwise.

Ia bukan demon , bukan penyihir. Ia lebih baik dari mereka. Keserakahan dan sikap mementingkan diri sendiri bukanlah sifatnya.

I'd never punched an old lady before; I didn't have any problem doing so now.

I see. Yes, you kill, you lie, you rob, you hit old men and steal their boats. I only thanks the gods you draw the line at swearing — it would have been just too dreadful otherwise.

The fact that a humble commoner was more honourable than you'll ever be is hardly my affair. You do what you like.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

She has more goodness in her little finger, than he has in his whole body.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.)

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

You can't let your dog crap on the sidewalk, but it's perfectly acceptable to blow carcinogens down other people's throats. Somewhere along the way, smokers exempted themselves from the social contract.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

If children see temper uncontrolled, hear gossip, uncharitableness and suspicion of neighbors, witness arrogant sharp-dealing or lax honor, their own characters can scarcely escape perversion. In the same way others can not easily fail to be thoroughbred who have never seen or heard their parents do or say an ignoble thing.