Quotes About Ethics

Stick by your righteous guns and you will bless your fellowman. Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible--but in that order.

Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.

There must be no bloodshed, no violence unless it is defensive, no coercion! We must do it our way and our way alone! To do otherwise is to betray centuries of hardship and struggle. Above all else Kyfho. Forget Kyfho in your pursuit of victory over the enemy, and you will become the enemy...worse than the enemy because he doesn't know he is capable of anything better.

There can be no coexistence with monsters'" Glenn said, "be they Nazis or Nosferatu. Excuse me." He

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

Learn young about hard work and manners — and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

Sometimes we have to lie so that we do not needlessly hurt others. The important thing is that we are honest with ourselves. That we know how to bend without breaking ourselves. -Crepusculo Lepidoptera

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

It is more difficult for the poor to be virtuous. -The Cripple

Virtue and wealth seldom go together. The greatest criminals are also the wealthiest men." -The Cripple

How can we build trust among our own people? How can we make them confident of themselves and their countrymen so that they will not sell their souls for a few silver dollars? -The Cripple

When I see justice sold to the highest bidder I remember Tio Baldo and how he had lost. So honesty then and service are rewarded by banishment and people sell themselves without so much ado because they have no beliefs--only a price.

Virtue and wealth sometimes go together.

The greatest criminals are also the wealthiest men.

According to Fuller, laws should be (1) general, (2) publicly promulgated, (3) prospective (i.e., not retroactive), (4) clear, (5) consistent (i.e., not contain any contradictions), (6) practicable (i.e., not demand the impossible), (7) constant over time, and (8) congruent with the actions of officials. If we accept that list as defining the rule of law, America's departures from it will be apparent to readers of this book.

half the politicians are good-for-nothing; the others are ready to anything...

Policy is not that complicated! One only needs a clear conscience and therefore, a bad memory...

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

And if selfishness and a lack of sexual discernment was to be judged a good enough reason to murder someone, then the death rate would surely sky-rocket.

It's a very lucrative field, you see. Keeping gangsters and corporate sharks out of jail.

A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all.

Every one likes justice in another's house,none in his own.

True religion is in one's heart.

We need to hold those people in charge who were negligent, irresponsible, or simply failed to act accountable for the harm they caused. These cases need to be rigorously pursued, and none of those parties responsible should be allowed to weasel their way out of this.