Quotes About Ethics

Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all.

If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that will take you completely by surprise

I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

Two wrongs don't make a riot.

A lawyer aint a priest. Nor a doctor. Law's more vagrant than sickness or sin. We make our case. We'd be fools to say what a dozen other fools might think of it.

If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to the hazards of fortune.

No hay criterio definitivo que pueda demostrar la bondad o maldad de un juicio ético. Que

Would it have done any good? No sir. But that dont make it right.

You didnt slack up on him just the littlest bit? No. I dont believe in it.

I was a born classicist and my heroes were never saints but killers.

Am I a monster, are there monsters in me ?

Might does not make right, said Irving.

Did I kill a lot of people? I been asked that question a few times. But never before by a man. I told this one girl I was seeing that yes I had killed a bunch of gooks but that I hadnt eaten any of them.

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

Where there is no vital community to hold up precious ethical and religious ideals, there can be no coming to a moral commitment—only personal accomplishment is applauded.

I'm sure I've had my phone tapped for years, I don't think it's a crime against humanity they just ought to quit doing it, god damn it.

racial reasoning discourages moral reasoning.

We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world.

Wir sind alle Lügner, wenn es uns nützt.

Why do you want to tie them up?" inquired Farid. "Why not kill them? That's what they were going to do to us!

I think she'd sell her soul to the devil without thinking if he offered her the right book for it.

I hate that, I said. It's like there's no human beings in the chain of responsibility, just things-that-happen. It's the ultimate cop-out. The system did it. The company did it. The government did it. What about the person who pulls the trigger?

The Bill of Rights was written before data-mining, he said. He was awesomely serene, convinced of his rightness. The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?