Quotes About Ethics

Mi abuelo es un hombre de bien. Me pregunto si yo seré un hombre de bien. Me pregunto si habrá hombres de bien en mi generación.

There were really only two men I knew who ever got a laugh out of paying their income taxes. One was cheating the government and getting away with it. The other had a sick sense of humor and would probably have set up a concession stand at the Boston Tea Party and sold sugar cubes and lemon slices.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Beauty is a symbol of goodness; the admiration we feel for it is a symbol of the reverence inspired by the moral law.

The essence of morality must be found in a careful attention to, and an attentive care for, others.

Game worlds are much more than the sum of the pictures and sounds that portray them. A game world can have a culture, an aesthetic, a set of moral values,

There are few situations in life that cannot be honourably settled, and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold, or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice upon a dark night.

I sincerely apologize for copying your wife without her knowledge or permission.

Two-Face was right. You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

mueres como un héroe o vives lo suficiente como para verte convertido en un villano.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

He liked the woods and the iron-cold air, and he liked snapping the rifle to his shoulder as the game came into view. But he did not like the killing, the thing lying there, bewildered, eyes open.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it… Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.