Quotes About Ethics

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

It's easier to robe the poor.

Gain cannot be made without loss to someone else.

It was worth repeating, because it constituted the First Law of Sentient Ordnance: Thou shalt not blow up the wrong planet. On that point the programmers had been insistent to the point of fussiness. Accordingly

There comes a time when a man must stand up and do what he knows is Wrong.

It was one of those moments when the moral high ground opens and swallows you up.

Because that's what privilege is-the license to treat other people like shit while still getting to believe that you're a good person.

that's what privilege is—the license to treat other people like shit while still getting to believe that you're a good person.

If you're thinking about doing something you won't be able to confess to your spouse or best friend, then DON'T DO IT! YOU ALREADY KNOW IT'S WRONG!

As far as I could tell, he earned his hundred thousand a year by wandering the hallway with a Styrofoam cup of coffee, smiling at the pretty girls and scowling at the boys who didn't play sports. Somebody should have stuck a broom in his hand and made him an honest man.

Nagin is a decent man

To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.

How would we fare psychologically if the walls of slaughterhouses were made of glass?

Estar por los animales no es estar contra la humanidad. Exigirr que otros traten a los animales con justicia (...) no es pedir nada más o nada menos que lo que se pide en el caso de cualquier humano a quien se le debe un trato justo.

What happens to them matters to them.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Hitler's core—"The fact that a man is decent is no reason why we should not eliminate him.

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

For the ethical, political activism was seductive because it seemed to offer the possibility that one could improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self. For the unconscionable, political reactivism was seductive because it seemed to protect one's holdings and legitimize one's greed. But both sides were gazing through a kerchief of illusion.

If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.