Quotes About Ethics

The chief issue controlling our most consequential decisions isn't determining whether we can—it's figuring out whether we should.

The true test of bravery is demonstrating moral courage. In applying this test you will likely find more cowards than not.

You never need a green light to stand up for what's right.

What's right and what's permitted are sometimes different things.

What if he'd had to be put down?

Fred looked at me grimly. "It's not right," he said. "It is," I Said. "What's right and what's permitted are sometimes different things.

How could a real person kill an imaginary animal?

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

How one dies shows how one lived.

Plagiarism is a crime of its first known definition, now lost and stolen.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

How mad at me would you be if I hit him really hard? Just once. (Sin)

Kill him? (Jake) Confront him. (Morgan) Since when do you take the sissy way out? (Jake) Excuse me? (Morgan) Face it, Drake, that good English breeding of yours is showing itself. Talking ain't a man's way of doing things. You know that. You got a problem, you cut its heart out and then it's not a problem anymore. (Jake)

It's not easy to kill someone, Rowena. To stare at them, face to face, that moment when you both realize you've dealt them a mortal blow. There is something that passes between you. My father once told me it's a part of their soul that creeps into you. A part that will haunt you all of your life. (Stryder)

Inside of every being there is a constant war being raged. The part that tell us to do what is right and what is decent and the part of us that is self-serving. The part that wants what it wants regardless of who is hurt getting it.

La violación es solamente una peculiaridad minúscula en las leyes de la física, una que presumiblemente soportan las leyes con gusto.

The cow was not an Indian cow; therefore it was not holy?

But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child therefore also enjoy the father's illicit gain?

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

I believe that we must align our actions with our highest principles. No matter the outcome, we will not have failed if we act from our best intentions." "The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Captain," Chakotay said with equal certainty. "So is the road to peace," Cambridge observed.

Balancing security against the values we hold dear requires commitment.

It's wrong for a state to turn its people into monsters, even to secure ourselves, bacause we draw the line at becoming what we behold

She put the needs of a few of those closest to her ahead of the many.

The Prime Directive exists to remind us that we are not gods. We don't get to reorganize every world, every civilization, every existence out here in our own image,