Quotes About Ethics

No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers. . . . Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? — Tecumseh Shawnee This

That is not the way it should be. Good leaders wait to be called and they give up their power when they are no longer needed. Selfish men and fools put themselves first and keep their power until someone throws them out. It is no good to have a way where selfish men and fools fight with each other to be leaders, while the good ones watch.

Eve: I don't understand this word..."Freedom." Does it mean...I do what I want? Sven: Yes. Eve: Then I wouldn't have to kill anymore? Sven: No more killing.

Is it so good to be sad...? If it is... then I don't care to be good.

I never wanted to be safe... I wanted to be good.

Get involved with humanity and you find yourself morally compromised,' he said, unencouragingly.

just want one grown-up in parliament, just one. Or maybe two. I wouldn't want the only one to die of loneliness. One person who will not take a party line of safe in-between wishy-washiness, who will say, this is evil, this is wrong, not only that, this is silly, I won't support it .

But if I hear that any creatures are being hunted or abused, I will come back and take this off your head." "Whoa, Tea," Abby said. " You'll take off his head?" "I'll help," Enkidu said happily. "I didn't say I'd take off his head. I said I'd take the crown off his head." "It was totally in your tone of voice, though," Abby insisted.

consumers do look for bargains, and they don't usually stop to ask why a product is so cheap. We have to face facts: by always looking for the best deal, we may be choosing slave-made goods without knowing what we are buying.

Slaves today are cheaper than they have ever been. The cost of slaves has fallen to a historical low, as little as $10.

God is not a symbol of goodness. Goodness is a symbol of God.

Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it.

Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.

She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.

People who read D.H. Lawrence suspect that the forbidden is not necessarily without its virtue, and so are easily persuaded that the forbidden and the virtuous are one and the same.

You can do just about anything you want — as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, or anything, it's probably OK.

I went to prison for my hacking. Now people hire me to do the same things I went to prison for, but in a legal and beneficial way.

One noted software libertarian, Richard Stallman, even refused to protect his account with a password.

Every hacker is to some extent a rebel who lives by different standards and enjoys beating the system.

F___k being a script kiddie if you can avoid it — be a hacker.

What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature?

Every society needs particular individuals to do its dirty work for it.

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.

Stanley Milgram's electric shocks