Quotes About Ethics

Add love, and a person might do something crazy. Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

I feel like I've been standing underneath an open window, just as a baby gets tossed out. I grab the baby, right, because who wouldn't? But then another baby gets tossed out, so I pass the baby to someone else, and I make the catch. This keeps happening. And before you know it there are a whole bunch of people who are getting really good at passing along babies, just like I'm good at catching them, but no one ever asks who the fuck is throwing the babies out the window in the first place.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal, Leo says. They're not mutually exclusive.

we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night- because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than the law.

How does someone go from thinking that if he cannot rescue, he must destroy? And do you blame him, or do you blame the folks who should have told him otherwise?

You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong?

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

Where is the line between keeping something private, and being dishonest?

The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.

As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.

How far can a person go... and still live with himself.

But not all Jews were victims- look at Chairman Rumkowski, who sat safe with his new wife in his cushy home making lists, with the blood of my family on his hands. And not all Germans were murderers. Look at Herr Fassbinder, who had saved so many children on the night that children were taken away.

Hard work make us strong behaviour and intentions makes us unique.

Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.

A secretary must think like a man act like a lady look like a girl - and work like a dog.

Give the labourer his wage before his perspiration be dry.

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible attitude.