Quotes About Ethics

Covertly influencing decision processes such as that the resulting decision is aligned with higher-order desires may actually enhance autonomy.

The French thinker Francois de La Rochefoucauld proclaimed: "Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue."7 If the Rule of Law sometimes produces hypocrisy, at least we know what counts as vice and what counts as virtue.

Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?" Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.

Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.

It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.

Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.

Do not seek revenge and call it justice.

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He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist then Pleasure.

Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes, and greater criminals?

I have lived to be above that sort of thing.

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.

Playing God is as dangerous for God as it is for humans.

Relying on theft and deceit is an unconscious admission of incompetence.

Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.

Always do right and you'll always have too much to do.

Honesty is the best policy that almost no one uses.

Honesty, not modesty, is a virtue.

We ourselves often duck responsibility for our own actions. Just think how much more embarrassed God would be if He were their author.

It is said that the end justifies the means, but that overlooks the crucial detail that only just means will culminate in a just end.