Quotes About Ethics

But when you fight evil every day, stare it in the face, engage it, learn to think like it, you face a choice:Be defeated by the limits of your own morality, or summon a beast in yourself that obeys none.

Power is not good or evil. It is what it is in the hands of the wielder.

Rowena was wrong. She was so wrong. There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light.

Sonsuz hayat sonsuz sab?r gerektirir. Yeterince uzun yaÅŸarsan, bugün ilgini çekiyorsa bugünün iyi olduÄŸunu düÅŸünebilirsin. Yanl?? veya doÄŸru, bütün ahlaki deÄŸerler, bütün erdemler yok olabilir.

When you treated things badly, things behaved badly.

Lines are thin. So easy to cross. Impossible to uncross.

You can kill but don't cuss. Break any rule necessary to save the world but don't watch porn or even think about having sex. How do they come up with this stuff-hold parental powwows for brainstorming diametrically opposed ethics?

Then you shouldn't be boinking him!" "It's my own business who I boink

Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man.

Evil isn't a state of being, Barrons once said to me. It's a choice.

How dare anything tamper with our innate structure? Who the hell was it to decide what was right and wrong with us?

He'd sternly reminded himself of rule number four—no physical intimacy. But it had done him no good. Rule number four seemed to have become quite friendly with rule number one—never break an oath—and was cozying up nicely to rule number two—do not lie. What a crowd they were becoming, his broken rules.

Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber?

Did she actually kill Alina? With her hands? A weapon?" "Why do you ask?" "Everything has degrees." "You think some ways of killing are better?" "I know they are." "Death is death!" "Agreed. But killing is not always murder.

Perhaps, Ms. Lane, you and I are fighting different wars." If he thought becoming evil was a solution, not a problem, he was right, we were.

I don't reply. Sometimes the most heroic action you can take looks a lot like inaction to the rest of the world. Sometimes the hardest, longest walk is the one the white-hat takes offstage.

Why does the choice between good and evil have to involve personal comfort?

Be nice to People on your way up,Because your gonna meet them on your way down

when you're raising weather by artificial means, it's hard to pretend you don't have a hand in the change

I don't know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It's the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out for your comrades.

If you're not prepared to do something in public, don't do it at all.

Nowhere does it say free speech is carte blanche to be a jerk. And don't cheapen real free speech by hijacking an honourable concept bought dearly with people's lives just to get a little spotlight. Spotlights run hot, and they can burn.

Sitting back and not getting involved while people get killed in an endless cycle of wars doesn't count as not having blood on your hands.

There's rights, and there's right.