Quotes About Ethics

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Whether we are orderlies or orchestra conductors, either we befriend our work-- seeing in it the opportunity for moral excellence and a continual outpouring of heavenly grace-- or we become its victim.

Everybody else is doing it is an excuse, not a reason. It could be that everybody else isn't, but the Devil is introducing you to the few that are in the hopes that he can fool you.

Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.

knowing in his fragile bones that it was the duty of men who aspired to the condition of humanity to protect children and kill for them if necessary. It comes to a person most clearly when he has daughters.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means...

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

You only need to hide if you're doing something you shouldn't.

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die?

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.

Given the right circumstances, every human being n this earth would be willing to commit evil.

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die?

Those who try to kill the body violate God's law. Those who try to kill the soul also violate God's law, even though their crime is less visible to others. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom.

Everything is permitted, if everything is accepted.

Someone once said that the earth produces enough to satisfy needs, but not enough to satisfy greed

It doesn't matter who's correct, what matters is who's right.

But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.

Do not do to another that which you would abhor being done to you; that is the law. All the rest is legal commentary.

One of the most aggressive things a human being can do is to go against what he or she believes is nice or pretty.