Quotes About Ethics

It is unconscionable that we ration health care by the ability to pay.... your heart breaks. Health care should be a given.

Character is who you are, when nobody is looking.

The easiest thing to do when bad things are being spoken of another is to jump on that slander train. It takes integrity and character to see another's character and integrity to stand up and say that you won't participate in the slander of them.

Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren

Medicine is not a science; physicians must act. They must do the best they can, even when it is inadequate, even when they don't know all there is to know, even when there is nothing to do. So must we all.

What about you? You ever done anything wrong in your entire life?" "Why do you ask that?" "Honey, you look like the Virgin Mary." Her chin came up. "I've done some things." "Like?" "I cheated on a test in first grade." "That bad?" "I told the teacher right away." "No surprise there.

When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. - Warren Buffett

Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, wrote, "Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals." Fellow humans, we're failing that test.

The tears ran freely down his cheeks. "Is this what people feel like? Bad ? Guilty? And when they do the right thing, the virtuous thing, is it only to keep themselves from feeling like this ? Is that what good is? What it means to be good?

It's hardly unheard of for both good and evil to be aimed at the same target.

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.

Those who trespass in others' souls will always get burned in the end.

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

Because despite the torture he'd been put through, the pain and loss he did not believe he had done anything to deserve, he had tried to be a decent person, tried to stay within the confines of morality. And all it had gotten him was more suffering.

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality.

Berhentilah memanfaatkan situasi yang menguntungkan hanya supaya kau bisa memaksakan pendapatmu" -Detektif Kusanagi

Scientists don't make decisions based on potential profit. What a scientist must consider foremost is which of the many available paths will lead to the greatest benefit for humanity. Even if said path, doesn't result in any personal gain, it's still the one to pick. Of course, ideally, we hope that the most beneficial path also results in personal gain.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.