Quotes About Ethics

A man should never pull a trigger unless he's willing to kill. And if the other fellow is armed, I'm going to aim for the chest. That way, when people do die around me, it's the right ones.

Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality-which answers only to my heart-is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.

I think," M-Bot said, "maybe the Superiority might not be very nice.

Good men will kill as quickly for what they want as evil men- only the things they want are different.

The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.

It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower, destroy the pests who wanted to feed on it. Protect a building, destroy the plants that could have grown in the soil. Protect a man. Live with the destruction he creates.

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion.

La libertad no era la ausencia de responsabilidad: era ser capaz de hacer lo que estaba bien, sin necesidad de preocuparse porque también pudiera estar mal.

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will, she'd said. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age. No

Integrity doesn't stop men from killing, Brightness," Sebarial said. "It just makes them use different justifications.

Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.

But isn't it remarkable that, given the chance for personal gain at the cost of others, so many people choose what is right?" "Because they fear the Almighty." "No," Jasnah said. "I think something innate in us understands that seeking the good of society is usually best for the individual as well. Humankind is noble, when we give it the chance to be. That nobility is something that exists independent of any god's decree.

Not that he was a fool. No, the book was full of insight. Disturbing insight. The Lord Mistborn advocated gathering the Metalborn who were elderly or terminally ill, then asking them to sacrifice themselves to make these Ã¢â'¬Â¦ spikes, which could in turn be used to create individuals of great power.

I like cutting off toes," Tonk Fah noted. "That's different," Denth said. "You wouldn't do it simply because your contract ran out, would you?" "Nah," Tonk Fah said. "Toes is toes.

What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will, she'd said. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

People suffered when the truth became a commodity to be speculated upon.

It is a great irony that society tends to look down on those who sell their bodies, but not on those who lease out their minds.

The book was written to embody an ideal. It was given to people who already had momentum in doing what was right. That was my mistake. Before any of this can work, our people need to have a minimum level of honor and dignity.

A good man, I don´t think I´ve ever known one of those before

Debe alguien, un ser invisible, declarar qué es el bien para que sea bueno? Yo creo que mi propia moralidad, que responde solo ante mi corazón, es más segura y veraz que la moralidad de aquellos que hacen el bien solo porque temen el castigo. —Pero

We're going to kill them, aren't we?" William Ann asked. "Yes." "How much are they worth?" "Sometimes, child, it's not about what a man is worth.

Who had time for morals in a world like this?

no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.