Quotes About Ethics

Now, here's a philosophical dilemma for a vicar … is it a lie if you don't know you're lying? Is it a lie if you're lying to yourself?" "Is it a sin if I tell my cousin to bugger off?

After all, "justice" was really another word for commerce, something every man at the mercy of it eventually learns.

But you'd sell your soul for it, wouldn't you? For one day of feeling beautiful.

Would I cheat to save my soul? No. But to save my G.P.A.? Yes.

The surgical nurses were right. Theo Buchanan was gorgeous.. and sexy as hell. But none of that should matter. She was his physician, nothing more, nothing less.. His hair was sticking up and he needed a shave, but he was still sexy. There wasn't anything wrong with her noticing that.. unless, of course, he noticed her noticing.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it." PLATO, GORGIAS

Abhor that which is evil; Cleave to that which is good.

Evil is the man who has known honor and discarded it.

But was it cowardice to call out a lie, to insist on truth?

Loyalty to an employer is the most vulgar of loyalties.

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.

But then, if you forget what's bad, cruel, unjust, you might not care anymore about setting things to rights. You might stop standing up against the folk who do evil deeds. And someone's got to.

Too much power made people arrogant and unfeeling. It turned them cruel. It blinded them to right and wrong.

There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light, save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

If you forget what's bad, cruel, unjust, you might not care anymore about setting things to rights. You might stop standing up against the folk who do evil deeds. And someone's got to.

Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.

I do not agree with the view that to be moral, the motive of one's action has to be benefiting others. Morality does not have to be defined in relation to others … People like me want to … satisfy our hearts to the full, and in doing so we automatically have the most valuable moral codes. Of course there are people and objects in the world, but they are all there only for me.

For all her faults, she was no despot.

No good comes of cheating your mother to have some fun.

Wisdom is an ethics of knowledge

Cuestiones como «Amor al Pueblo» y la obligación social sólo tienen sentido si uno pierde algo cuando se desentiende de ellas... ¿Pero qué diablos tenía ella que perder?

I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.

Pure practical reason, even with a good knowledge of the facts, will not take you to morality.