Quotes About Ethics

If we want to get to the source of what we feel, we need to figure out what we believe and value.

I think we are here to make the world a better place then we found it. I think we do not always deserve the cards that we are dealt-good or bad. But we are judged by how we play the cards we are dealt. Those of us with a bum deal that makes it harder to do good-we just have to work a little more is all. There is no destiny. There is just muddling through without doing too much damage. ---Kitty Norville

I think we're here to make the world a better place than we found it. I think we don't always deserve the cards that we're dealt, good or bad. But we are judged by how we play the cards we're dealt. Those of us with a bum deal that makes it harder to do good—we just have to work a little more is all. There's no destiny. There's just muddling through without doing too much damage.

But underneath the action, it asks a question just as tough: Is it ever right to "out" someone, to take away their control of what the world knows of them?

But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all.

Solange ich glücklich war, war ich ein ganz guter Mensch.

Es mucho mejor que nos quiten los beneficios de nuestro bolsillo a que nos roben las riquezas de nuestra mente y nuestra alma

If you want freedom, somebody's got to fuck a rat.

We can believe in hierarchy. We can believe the universe was made just for us. Hierarchy and a major sense of entitlement are not insurmountable problems. The problem occurs when we treat those whom we believe lie beneath us as slaves. Religion once sustained human slavery. It was wrong then. When it blindly sanctions the slavery of every nonhuman animal, it is wrong now.

I'm a hacker! Cadel protested. I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!

It is impossible to live pleasantly without living prudently, honourably and justly, and impossible to live prudently, honourably and justly without living pleasantly. ~ Epicurus

DOOKU: The Jedi are supposed to protect the galaxy and yet we remove ourselves from it. Cut ourselves off. KOSTANA: So that our judgement isn't clouded! DOOKU: But what if that's wrong?

I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.

To borrow means to take and use something belonging to someone else and then eventually return it.

sometimes when people are involved, business has to stop being business and the human must win.

Though when she thought of it after, it was rather unprofessional behaviour, but sometimes when people are involved, business has to stop being business and the human must win. However, Kitty couldn't ignore the underlying truth that they both hung on to that hug for a little too long.

Temujin said, "It would be seemly to get drunk only three times a month. It would be preferable, clearly, to make it only twice or even only once. It would be perfect never to get drunk at all. But where is the man who could observe such a rule of conduct?

Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.

if you're out to change the world, you're bound to make some people angry. That's OK as long as your intentions are right. Don't be a jerk about it, but don't tiptoe around always playing it conservative either.

A man must sometimes be forced to make choices, for it is only by his choices that we know what a man truly is.

Isn't it better to arrest and prosecute a hundred innocent people and catch among them one spy than to let the spy go free?

Verbal fraud is worse than monetary fraud.

Asher, an animal cannot help what he does. A human being is able to control himself if he wills it.

Better that ten innocent people should suffer," he said, "than one spy get away.