Quotes About Ethics

Major, monumental crises bring out the best or the worst in us—sometimes both. And sometimes those major, monumental crises have no effect on certain types. Which means, no matter what the circumstances, assholes remain assholes.

You don't cheat, steal, or lie. You don't misuse animals or take advantage of those weaker than you. You don't spoil for a fight—which is a rule come to be in the last few years—but you don't walk away from one. You stand for your friends and for your round in the pub. You never touch a woman who belongs to another, and you don't give your word unless you intend to keep it.

It's right he's paying you, as you were hurt on his job, and he can well afford it. Doing so shows his character, just as fretting over it shows yours.

And he had no qualms whatsoever about prying into someone's private thoughts and experiences. And no guilt about hoarding his own.

CiCi Lennon lived life by her own rules. Two of the top rules—Try Not to Hurt Anybody, and Have the Balls to Say What You Think—often clashed, but the results blended with her Be An Asshole When Necessary rule, so it worked for her.

I believe in payback. For the little things, for the big ones. For everything in between. Letting people screw you over is just lazy and uncreative.

Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.

When you take what isn't offered freely, you have nothing.

You're a warrior. A warrior isn't a killer because a warrior, a true one, has honor. The men who'll come aren't warriors." "No

I believe strongly in the threefold rule. What you send out into the universe, good or bad, comes back at you threefold. But I'd risk whatever came at me to send out something that would drop that bitch like a stone down a bottomless well for trying to hurt you or my baby.

Because it was right. Seth had mulled it over for a while and had decided that's what a hero was. Somebody who just did what was right.

You don't intend to keep your word, even when it's hard, you don't give it. You have to respect that.

The cops, we know that the victims, the ones who are broken or shattered or dead . . . or dead, they need somebody to stand up for them, to say, 'Goddamn it, it is your fault. You did this, and you have to pay for it, no matter if your mother beat you or your father . . . No matter what, you don't have the right to damage the next guy.' 

Or she could remember that sometimes pride was less important than doing what had to be done. She

With great power comes great responsibility

Major, monumental crises bring out the best or the worst in us—sometimes both. And sometimes those major, monumental crises have no effect on certain types. Which means, no matter what the circumstances, assholes remain assholes." "Huh.

Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. —Sir Francis Bacon

I'll tell you, he's a man of rules. You don't cheat, steal, or lie. You don't misuse animals or take advantage of those weaker than you. You don't spoil for a fight—which is a rule come to be in the last few years—but you don't walk away from one. You stand for your friends and for your round in the pub. You never touch a woman who belongs to another, and you don't give your word unless you intend to keep it.

She glanced at the papers he'd been working on. Black and white. He wouldn't see the shades of gray she saw there. The man they sought was a killer. The state of his mind, his emotions, perhaps even his soul, didn't matter to Ben. Maybe they couldn't.

such sacrifice, to damn an innocent to

I'll tell you, he's a man of rules. You don't cheat, steal, or lie. You don't misuse animals or take advantage of those weaker than you. You don't spoil for a fight ... but you don't walk away from one. You stand for your friends and for your round in the pub. You never touch a woman who belongs to another, and you don't give your word unless you intend to keep it.

I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.

As pessoas que estão preparadas para usar a violência e o homicídio como instrumentos normais de política nunca podem sentir-se livres do medo de que outros possam recorrer aos mesmos instrumentos contra eles.

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.