Quotes About Ethics

It is not the stars that make us, Dr. Butts, it is circumstance and necessità, the choices we make under pressure; our virtues make us, but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times.

Há para tudo uma estação: uma estação para passar fome e uma estação para roubar.

And I begin to see it. How a man may hardly know his sister, and meet her as a grown woman. She is like himself, yet not. She is familiar, yet piques his interest. One day his brotherly embrace is a little longer than usual. The business progresses from there. Perhaps neither party feels they are doing anything wrong, till some frontier is crossed.

Ask Robespierre. Ask the man with the conscience which is more important, your friend or your country— ask him how he weighs an individual in the scheme of things. Ask him which comes first, his old pals or his new principles. You ask him, Camille.

It was too much for the Commons to digest, that rich men might have some duty to the poor.

Right is what you can get away with, and wrong is what they whip you for.

Ambition is a sin. So I am told. Thought I have never seen how it is different from using your talents, which the Bible commands we do.

Here's a bargain. You can take him to a sermon if you don't take him to a brothel.

People confuse early rising with moral worth;

In the camp we saw our own people kill each other over a crust of bread. In the old days I used to think that religion did not matter much, that people could be good without it. That was not true in the camps. If you had no hope or faith to keep you human, you sank to the lowest depths. I'll practice my religion more faithfully now.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

to him. It was indeed a reprehensible act in the American Fur Company secretly to instigate the Crows to rob Fitzpatrick of his furs; but

If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.

But they feel pain! They have feelings! And yet you call yourself a Celestial Spirit Mage?

Why do you find it easy to kill? These are lives dammit!

Anyway, what does "wrong" mean? Who decides what's wrong and what's right?