Quotes About Ethics

for politics is a cesspool of lying lawyers

Love thy neighbor as thyself . . . as long as he's a Christian. Otherwise, go ahead and kill him. You'll be doing us both a favor, believe me." I

We're all terrible people. Eventually, we all become terrible, maybe around the middle of our lives, and then, if we're lucky, we have time to find a way to be good again.

He is on the precipice of cheating, maybe, which in itself is a kind of thrill for him, and yet, if he thinks about it too much he knows it is the same thing. On the precipice or over the precipice, once you're there, you're there.

The desideratum of the philosophy "better to have never been" is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world

the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping.

Son, this is the United States of America. Some would say it's unconstitutional to try to prevent psychopaths from fulfilling their potential.

Sometimes complex and difficult moral choices are decided less by reason and by right than by sentiment. Perhaps such decisions are paving stones on the road to Hell; if so, my route is well paved, and the welcoming committee all ready knows my name.

Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act.

The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and proclaims his intention to save the seas is convinced that he is superior to a man who merely picks up his own and other people's litter on the beach, when in fact the latter is in some small way sure to make the world a better place, while the former is likely to be a monster of vanity whose crusade will lead to unintended destruction.

Sometimes complex and difficult moral choices are decided less by reason and by right than by sentiment.

Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you.

These days law thinks it's about nothin' but laws. Law don't remember it was once handed down from somewhere, that it once meant not just no, but was a way to live and a reason to live that way. Law now thinks nobody but politicians made it or remake it, so maybe it ain't a surprise some people don't care anymore about law, and even some lawmen don't understand the real reason for law.

They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.

If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and a reasonable measure of guilt guards against corruption.

Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

To me religion is about our dignity not our depravity

There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

I would have liked you better as a criminal or a terrorist than as a militant in the cause of happiness.

She's one of those people who think happiness is legitimate.

Pero ¿por qué una virgen es pura y otra mujer no?