Quotes About Ethics

Good and bad are just constructs people use.

The people most reluctant to use weapons are the ones who can best be trusted with them.

Or, as a famous human jurist once said, 'The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins,' " Archer added.

It's the ones who don't blame themselves who are more likely to be guilty of wrongdoing.

Our dead deserve to be honored, Phlox." "But do we really honor them by using them as an excuse to add to their numbers?

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.

Goodness is beauty in its best mistake

What virtue is it that is born with us? Much less can honor be ascribed thereto, Honor is purchased by the deeds we do. Believe me, Hero, honor is not won, Until some honorable deed be done. ----From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad I

The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.

Compliment but do not covet.

When war makes commerce and commerce is law, profit rules prudence and justice is flawed.

So know this, little one. Whether you are the Messiah, or you become a rabbi, or even if you are nothing more than a farmer, here is the sum of all I can teach you, and all that I know: treat others as you would like to be treated. Can you remember that?

One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy.

You're the one with almost an MBA, Barry, the short balding one, said to Lash. You should know what to do. They don't cover what to do with a dead hooker, Lash countered. That's a whole different program. Political science, I think.

They don't cover what to do with a dead hooker. That's a whole different program. Political science, I think.

In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.

Nobody likes a dead whore.

A death that results from your actions is basically killing someone, unless you're a politician, right?

There's a difference between bearing false witness and saving someone's feelings.

What's morality?" "It's the difference between what is right and what you can rationalize.

Las tres joyas del taoísmo son la compasión, la moderación y la humildad…

You don't have to explain why a character pulled the kid from the freezing river, but there better be a pretty good reason why he held that kid under.

Well, one guy died because of something I said to him, and another had a heart attack because of something I did. A death that results from your actions is basically killing someone, unless you're a politician, right? So why me?

Treat a whore like a lady and a lady like a whore and even a great stumbling dolt like yourself shall sail on the slippery seas of passion.