Quotes About Ethics

Nil magnum nisi bonum. No greatness without goodness.

The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion about freedom plague them both.

Nil magnum nisi bonum. Tak ada kemuliaan tanpa kebajikan.

Antara mencari untung dan melayani masyarakat tidak bisa seiring-sejalan.

the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims...

I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

Animals are also poisoned. And there are indecencies

No greatness without goodness.

La cultura europea ha subito un processo di secolarizzazione e di trasformazione in senso materialistico che non solo ha distrutto la sua unità, ma che, alla fine, la minaccia di imbarbarimento, poiché significa un ritorno all'etica della tribù e alla riduzione della democrazia alla dittatura di massa e della scienza a una specie di magia utilitarista.

Il fatto di aver perso fiducia negli ufficiali della nave non è una ragione per affidarne la rotta a agente che crede ai naufragi come questione di principio o fa della pirateria un affare.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Of course, I do everything for money.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

This means we do not ignore the particularity of biblical commands (and apply them to our own day as if they were timeless universals). Nor are we paralysed by their particularity (and thus unable to apply them to our day at all). We rejoice in their particularity because it shows us how the will of God was expressed in their context, and we take them as our paradigm for our own ethical construction.21

I lived a good life and though not a religious man I always stuck to my own personal code of ethics, ethos and always stuck to my shoreline and true North. I didnt need the US Navy to instill Honor, Courage, and Commitment in me but I thank them for re-enforcing it. Its in my DNA.

Those of you who go along to get along have no backbone and destroy the foundation of courage. You are the enablers of those who are guilty of misconduct. You are just as guilty as those who break the code of ethics and oath you swore.

No one grows up and wants to be a cop killer. It was against everything Ive ever was. As a young police explorer I found my calling in life. But, As a young police officer I found that the violent suspects on the street are not the only people you have to watch.

Why would you shed a tear for them when they in return crack a smile for your loss because of the impending extra money they will receive in their next paycheck for sitting at your loved ones crime scene of 6 hours because of the overtime they will accrue.