Quotes About Ethics

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Straight edge means I'm drug free, alcohol free, and better than you.

Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, "Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

Is this one of those situations that involves "ethics"? 'Cause I'm a cat , you know. I've never been very good at those.

Killing a couple of civilians would be nothing to these people. Don't be taken in by their all sweet, 'we're trying to save the planet propaganda'. This is a murder case.

You can do what's right, or you can do what you are told.

We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body. I would be the last person to argue that the body signifies at some basic level that precedes or transcends its cultural inscriptions. Nevertheless, there is an ethical imperative not to conflate the body with its representations and mediations, but to remember that there is an actual body there somewhere, experiencing the consequences of what is being done to it.

But then, who's to say what is evil? "A man's beliefs are his own business. Neither the Church nor anybody else has any right to tell you how to think and how to act; that's what real freedom is about: to be able to be who you really are, not what you are expected or supposed to be," he later said.

Psychopaths have no ethics, no scruples, and no conscience. Something inside is gone. They just aren't capable of those emotions. That's why killing is so easy for a real psychopath. Society has a lot of problems understanding that.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

The statement that a man or company of men who put their money in a business have a right to operate it as they see fit, without regard to the public interest, belongs to days long since passed away," the congressional report asserted. "Every individual who invests his capital … is entitled to the protection of the law … but he owes something to society.

Break any of these rules sooner than saying anything outright barbarous.

each of us has the potential, or mental templates, to be saint or sinner, altruistic or selfish, gentle or cruel, submissive or dominant, sane or mad, good or evil. Perhaps we are born with a full range of capacities, each of which is activated and developed depending on the social and cultural circumstances that govern our lives. I

A good way to avoid crimes of obedience is to assert one's personal authority and always take full responsibility for one's actions.23

Bad systems" create "bad situations" create "bad apples" create "bad behaviors," even in good people.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: "The line between good and evil is in the center of every human heart.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal.

That seduction or initiation into evil can be understood by recognizing that most actors are not solitary figures improvising on the empty stage of life. Rather, they are often an ensemble of different players, on a stage with various props and changing costumes, scripts, and stage directions from producers and directors.

diffusion of responsibility, in any form it takes, lowers the inhibition against harming others.

Jedynym koniecznym warunkiem triumfu z?a jest to, ?eby dobrzy ludzie nie robili nic. (Edmund Burke)

Another way of looking at it is, you're putting good people in an evil situation to see who or what wins.

Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

An animal will kill, but never to completely annihilate a race, a whole collectively. What does this make us in this world?