Quotes About Ethics

There has always been a certain conflict between justice and the law. HERBERT PELL

Friedrich Nietzsche called the aristocratic predators who write society's laws "the splendid blond beast" precisely because they so often behave as though they are beyond the reach of elementary morality.

If action against state-sponsored atrocities was to be based on the conscience of mankind, who was to judge what that conscience might be, and on what basis?

If you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others. And the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.

If you do the right thing well, you avoid futility.

There are some things you just do because it's the right thing to do. And the outcome is out of my hands or in somebody else's hands. I want to believe there's value in that. You're doing everything you can for the patient, but you're not deluding yourself into thinking that what you do isn't worth doing because the person is going to die anyway.

Money is a fictional thing that is supposed to go around. Hoarding it is a sin

Ask yourself, what are the values that I wish to live my life by?

Honor is an overvalued commodity.

The tablets mean nothing," Ao said, addressing all of his gods, no matter where they were. "I kept them to remind you that I created gods to serve the Balance, not to twist it to your own ends. But this point was lost on you. You saw the tablets as a set of rules by which to play juvenile games of prestige and pomp! Then, when the rules became inconvenient, you stole them Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Kyralia estaria muy bien gobernada, si gobernar fuera un delito

En ocasiones, revelar la medida justa de la verdad era mejor que mentir descaradamente.

Some things are worth risking lives for," he said. "If you had seen what the Ashaki do – experienced it – you'd want to rid the world of them, too." - Lorkin

I feel like taking her money AND her soul is not cool. One or the other.

porn stars are only objects for our sexual gratification, not real people.

I know what good morals are, but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.

The best of all lost arts is honesty

n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.

I am not aware of ever having used a profane expletive in my life; but I would have the charity to excuse those who may have done so, if they were in charge of a train of Mexican pack mules at the time. CHAPTER VIII.

nothing could be more dishonorable than to accept high rank and command in war and then betray the trust.

For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.

They had generally acquired some of the vices of civilization, but none of the virtues, except in individual cases.

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.