Quotes About Ethics

-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

The afterlife I'm not so sure about. So, I don't understand why you'd want to hurt other people in thinking that you'll go on in the afterlife to have bliss. I just don't understand it.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.

If people want to legalize a particular relationship, we need to be careful if that kind of relationship has been disapproved for millennia.

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.

That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

Accountability only works if you want it to.

About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.

I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.

Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"

If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I'll help them. Then they merit some special consideration.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

Oh, measure it all out! Acceptable levels of misery and suffering!' The cane swung down, thumped hard on the ground. 'Acceptable? Who the fuck says any level is acceptable? What sort of mind thinks that?

Why not worship money? At least its rewards are obvious and immediate . But no, that was simplistic. Letherii worship was more subtle, its ethics bound to those traits and habits that well served the acquisition of wealth. Diligence, discipline, hard work, optimism, the personalization of glory. And the corresponding evils: sloth, despair and the anonymity of failure. The world was brutal enough to winnow one from the other and leave no room for doubt or mealy equivocation.

Odd, isn't it, how we now deliver upon another nation what we would not have done to ourselves.

Life was a war against a thousand enemies, from the sustenance carved from nature to the insanity of a people's will to do wrong in the name of right.

It's just the place we chose. To do what's right. But then, maybe that alone gives reason to take us down, to destroy us.