Quotes About Ethics

Ethics change with technology.

A civilization has the ethics it can afford

Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil;

Perversion, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

If you are a good person who does good things when you have only a little, then you will be a good person who does even more good things when you have a lot.

It's about knowing yourself, knowing your values, and becoming uncompromising in your willingness to do whatever it takes to stand up for them.

What you tolerate is what you endorse.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.

Malo Mori Quam Foedari: I would rather die then be dishonored.

If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own

This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart - and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.

I looked at Georgia over the top of my iced tea. "Why does Mr. Elliott want to fire you?" "I refused to go out with him when I first started here.

Si los ángeles pueden matar, ¿por qué nosotros no podemos amar?

No hagas a los demás lo que no te gustaría que te hicieran a ti.

what he really disliked were people who thought they were above the law. The law was the law, and no one was exempt.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. When

The fatal poison of irresponsible power.

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

The clergy spoke with the moral force of religion. The American Baptist Convention's tradition encouraged individual freedoms in theology, church practice and morality. In an article on abortion that he wrote in 1967, Howard Moody stated: "It is a violation of every Protestant ethical stance to support with civil law any matter of personal morality….

If you're not a criminal, then what are you doing stealing all these swords and things?" For a moment he was silent. Then he rubbed his chin and said, "There's no name for it in English." "Oh, is there not? 'Burglary' seems descriptive enough." "Kyojitsu." He looked levelly into her eyes, not wavering. "False-true.

Being good all the time was a bad bargain.

Doing the right thing has power.

I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.