Quotes About Ethics

So far as I am concerned, war is neither a game nor an occasion for gallantry, but rather an unpleasant event to be settled with the least possible hurt for one's self

A detached attitude toward the problems of others is not illegal.

give dignity second place to expedience

I am a legalist and a financial expert, I admit as much; but my disregard for the law goes no farther.

Service always outranked wealth; loyalty always outranked payments.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Merely surviving without doing harm seemed chore enough.

You're as bad as your master, he muttered, scarce audible amid the sea-sounds. Worse. At least he didn't ply his words from a courtesan's lips.

It is my observation, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others. I like to think it might have been so.

I think you can only make statements like 'She was pathological' if you are absolutely sure of your own sanity, which I consider a morally unacceptable position.

Something's happening to this country. We're going to go immoral. And television is doing it.

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

just because you know right from wrong, it doesn't mean you stay away from the wrong part.

You know, Maisie, that when you look at one of these politicians, you're looking at a thief, a liar and a murderer, that's the way I see it." "Come on, Dad, that's not like you." "No, I mean it. Look—they take our money, they lie through their teeth, and then they send our boys off to their deaths, don't they? And all the time, they're in clover, never a day's risk or a day wanting.

I work hard, he says, I treat people like I want to be treated. God sees this, God knows.

There's about as much educational benefit studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary.

The Ethical can therefore end up making us irresponsible.

It is just that there be law, but law is not justice

Infinite responsibility, therefore, no rest allowed for any form of good conscience.

responsibility itself must cohabit with frivolity, this need not be cause for gloom.

Efficiency is a fact and justice a slogan.

more lucrative dates. The scheme was not properly disclosed

en la guerra, el fin justifica los medios. Aquel

Las batallas son algo horrible, Manuela. Tomar las vidas de otros seres humanos no es motivo de jactancia." Todas