Quotes About Ethics

La philosophie répond moins à la question de la nature des choses (la science se chargera de cette « physique ») qu'à celle du bien-vivre.

You can't say it's a fair way to determine right or wrong one day, and then say it's unfair the next because you don't like the outcome.

Yes. I had misgivings from the beginning about this entire enterprise. I still believe that sending a Jedi to assassinate a man was wrong. And I fear that I will likely lose not only a fellow Jedi Master, but someone I consider a friend, and we will have nothing to show for such a loss.

Fear makes people do cruel things, things they'll be ashamed of later

I have no fear of killing those who deserve to die. I do not choose to kill those who do not.

I don't want to be part of mass murder

Garrosh would learn that it was in how one fought, not where or when, that honor was born.

It is difficult enough for me to understand how one or two may become so corrupted that they would doom their descendants for power in their lifetimes; that there were so many—the number is not even known for certain—is beyond the scope of my limited imagination.

You always take the high road, Master Kenobi," said Desh.

A slave should be sincere, loyal, discreet, clean, modest, honest, graceful, intelligent (that is able to learn what is required for her position), respectful of herself and others, observant, attentive, and ethical.

He who lies down with dogs shall rise with fleas

Honesty shakes the foundation of civilization.

Saura nodded, bemused by the code of ethics that allowed for murder and kidnapping but balked at a lady touching a lord outside of the state of wedlock.

GBeing on a spiritual path, or living according to one's faith, means that a person aligns his/her self to a set of principles and values different than the everyday waking consciousness of our modern culture.

she had no money, and she had to live with a man who fancied himself a public character and a moralist of a very saintly type. The moralist said mice brought germs and so she was obliged to chase the mouse and all its fellow guests. Nevertheless, although she despised animals, she felt involuntarily that the little marauder was much like herself, trying to get by: she belongs to the great race of human beings who regard life as a series of piracies of all powers.

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.

All around him the chanting swelled, Harm no one, harm no one. What the hell did that mean? He was going to have to shoot the poor son of a bitch, but maybe that was a far better way to go than what the house of horrors had planned. This was a hell of a way for men to die, even if they deserved it.

It was against her principles to allow anyone else to fight her battles and perhaps be injured or killed in her place.

I'm not a good man, Ania, and you're a good woman. A man like me has to think long and hard before he decides to bring a woman like you into his world.

Who is this idiot, Jess? He's willing to kill you and rape a woman, but doesn't want to hurt a minor. Is he kidding? Criminals have to have some standards, baby. Jess sounded amused.

In his quest to find the perfect supersoldier, he experimented on the girls and when he thought he perfected what he was looking for, he psychically and genetically enhanced the soldiers in his GhostWalker program.

by the time you're in college, you're responsible for what you do. Your moral code is developed

Honor is a damnable trait and one that may not last eternity.

Never had any trouble distinguishing between a varmint and a gentleman. Where I come from, we get rid of the varmints.