Quotes About Ethics

People who wouldn't dream of drowning a puppy in a barrel full of water think nothing of killing a fish the same slow way.

It's entirely possible that the Jedi's increasingly clouded vision was the result of their own moral degeneration. They'd let so many of their principles slip that the reason they couldn't see the dark side was so close to them was the lack of sharp contrast with themselves, like trying to see a gray nerf in fog. They turned off the light themselves. —Bardan Jusik, former Jedi Knight Kyrimorut

Everything Jacen did to grab power was within the law. There's law, and there's justice, and sometimes they're not the same thing.

It crossed her mind that she might be saving clone soldiers from death by biological agent so they could die from blaster and cannon round. It was a horrible thought.

It was an ethical choice between rules or lives, and rules didn't always translate into what was right.

It never ceased to amaze Skirata how much simpler it was to buy and sell death than it was to pay taxes.

There is a fine line between neutral and amoral. In fact, there may be no line there at all.

The monsters don't run the gulags and the death camps and the reeducation centers. Regular people do. If they all had the balls to say no, the likes of Halsey, Zhou, or Stalin could never do it all on their own. Could they?

Fett, I have a beautiful daughter...' He shouldn't have said that. Now I'm angry, and I don't often get angry. 'Never use your kids, scumbag. Never.

This is how corruption begins. One small concession at a time. One thing you feel you have to do for a good reason.

Before you handed someone power, you had to ask yourself if you'd be happy with the worst possible thing they could ever do with it.

Doing the right thing even if there's nothing in it for you is the difference between civilisation and the cesspit we're in today.

Law is just religion for atheists, dear. It's equally shot full of contradictory nonsense.

Two wrongs—not equal to or more than a right (...) Good luck with quantifying a unit of right or wrong.

Real evil wasn't about bending the law to suit justice: evil was acting out of small, intensely personal expedience and losing sight of the bigger picture so often that you never got it back again.

You didn't help chop up a two-hundred-fifty-pound man and still graduate at the top of your class without learning how to compartmentalize.

Anything's legal if you can get away with it." Maggie slammed the locker closed. "Welcome to the Atlanta Police Department.

You're supposed to be my lawyer." "You're supposed to be a human being

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.' " "The Golden Rule," Charlie said. "Do unto others as they do unto you.

Will hated those cops, had worked more than a few cases where he'd gotten them kicked off the force. You couldn't say you were one of the good guys if you did the same thing the bad guys did.

it was better to be guilty and rich than innocent and poor.

There were good guys and bad guys, and to protect one, you did what you had to do to the other.

I will take care of animals. I will have justice. I

that police captain, Jacob Mayhew, dropped