Quotes About Ethics

I am responsible only to myself and my God. Only I know what I did of my own free will. And for that I can answer to my God. What I did without, or against my free will, for that I need not answer.…

I remember, he brushed his face with his hand and then he said, 'We are living through terrible times, my child. Before God and my conscience, if I had been in Paul's place, I would have done the same. I absolve him from all guilt.

We influence by what we are and by what we do. In one sense, it could be said that we influence others simply by being.

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

Essentially, the mercenary sets morality aside, or at best reorders the customary structures to fit the needs of his way of life. The

Evil is relative, Annalist. You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.

A man lay before me. He had sunk as low as any I had ever known. Then he had fought his way back and back and had become worthy. A man far better than I, for he had located his moral pole star and set his course by it though it had cost his life.

If you always do the easier thing, then you cannot possibly remain steadfast when it becomes necessary to take a difficult stand. You must do what you know to be right. And you do know. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred you do know and you are just making excuses because the right thing is so hard, or just inconvenient.

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive.

If each man picks an evil and attacks it relentlessly, how long can evil persist? That was an easy one. Forever. More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints.

righteousness is not a shield. The good die more quickly than the bad.

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. Few villains think they are villains.

money has no provenance. It's never dirty, only the people who handle it are.

I did not believe in evil as an active force, only as a matter of viewpoint, yet I had seen enough to make me question my philosophy.

People don't want to be told to do right. They don't really want to do right. They want to do whatever they want—and whine that it's not fair, it's not their fault, when it comes time to pay the piper.

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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors, and thieves. —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC)

One should speak truthfully; one should not get angry; when asked, one should give, even if there is just a little. With these three traits, one would go in the presence of the radiant ones.

Detestamos a los cazadores y más a los disecadores —peor que quitar la vida es conservar la muerte—.

It's a shame that money has to enter into everything.

There are values far beyond those of contracts, markets and exchange