Quotes About Ethics

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

To those who lack a conscience, there is no such thing as remorse.

Sometimes I am hampered by having a moral code, but I have it nonetheless, like a burr under the brain, with no way to pluck it out.

We are coming now to dark shoals in rough waters, to straits so narrow that virtue and wickedness voyage close together and may be at times more difficult than usual to differentiate from each other.

Most people indulged in their vices and clung to their virtues based on their responses to temptation and conflict, not because some Other within them drove their behavior.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

what is right is not always clean, and does not always feel good. In even a clear heart, some righteous acts of the harder kind can stir up a sediment of guilt, but that is not a bad thing. If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and a reasonable measure of guilt guards against corruption.

Annamaria insists that mere hours earlier, I saved entire cities, sparing many hundreds of thousands from nuclear terrorism. Even if that is most likely true, I feel as though, in the process, I have forfeited a piece of my soul.

If we rely upon the tao with which we're born, we always know what is the right thing to do in any situation, the good thing not for our bank accounts or for ourselves, but for our souls. We are tempted from the tao by self-interest, by base emotions and passions.

Action. Action, shaped by intelligence and a moral perspective, is the answer to most problems.

When you acted on principle tempered by compassion, there was sooner or later always someone with a saw. He

Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it to immoral ends.

To do something, to do what you feel sure is right and in the aid of justice, you sometimes have to do things that, when recalled on lonely nights, make you wonder if in fact you are the good man that you like to believe you are. Such doubts are high cards in the devil's hand, and he knows how to play them well, in hope of bringing you to despair and ennui, if not to self-destruction.

Balzac had written, "Behind every great fortune, there is a crime," which was both a cliché and a lie. However

Do you know Aesop? The fable titled 'The Great and the Little Fishes'?

Mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.

transhumanism

Even decent people must occasionally choose between the lesser of two evils.

highly successful history of bribing public officials

Judge Sheila Draper-Cruxton.

twenty, he's caught naked with a fifteen-year-old girl as he's teaching her how to self-inject DMT.

You're probably just like my dad. You have this kind of pride. Honor, he called it. But these days, honor is for suckers, and that makes you angry.

All that was considered evil on this side of the glass might be judged good on the other side. Truth here might be lies there, and the future might precede the past.

Or his conscience had been eaten away by the cancer of narcissism.