Quotes About Ethics

I don't mean to sound sleezy but tease me I don't want it if it's that easy.

To honor commitment is virtue of a person of character.

Being transparent reflects commitment towards justice and truth. It's speaks that one stands for moral value. One who stands for moral value commands respect and honor of all.

Effort is of value when you honor your commitment with honesty.

To honor commitment is virtue of people with strong character.

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault

almost every pearl on sale today was born of the planned sexual violation of a small creature, and that considerable suffering hangs on those necklace strings.

Like pearls that cannot be sprayed too much with perfume or warmed too much with smoke, left alone too much or touched too much, the mother oysters and mussels must be treated gently—as the Scottish pearl-fishers, too, had learned to their regret. These creatures are a barometer of how we are treating our planet. Sometimes in our greed to make them produce pretty things for our pleasure we forget that they deserve our respect.

Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill--that is strength!

The bottom line, as Raul Hilberg put it, was that most people thought that, even if Jews shouldn't be killed, they weren't worth saving.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right , a dilemma none of us who wanted participate in history could escape.

It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends

Besides my conscience, my liver was the most abused part of my body.

I had an abiding respect for the professionalism of career prostitutes, who wore their dishonesty more openly than lawyers, both of whom bill by the hour.

You know how Americans deal with it? They pretend they are eternally innocent no matter how many times they lose their innocence. The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just. At least we who believe in our own guilt know what dark things we can do.

We would all be in Hell if convicted of our thoughts.

the only thing harder than knowing the right thing to do...is to actually do the right thing.

I confess that I admired him, even though he was my enemy. It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends.

As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and I was right to kill him. Wasn't I?

You wouldn't know right from wrong." There was no trace of anger in his voice. "The only way a man knows right from wrong is when he makes a choice.

Are you going to be the kind of person who always pays the asking price?" my mother demanded. "Or the kind who fights to find out what something's really worth?

If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.

Our proper mode in situations where demand was high and supply low was to elbow, jostle, crowd, and hustle, and, if all that failed, to bribe, flatter, exaggerate, and lie.