Quotes About Ethics

To justify murdering tens of millions, Stalin is reputed to have said, "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

jury of the ignorant and a judge with issues would award millions to the trespasser.

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

The only virtue is vice, and the acquisition of power justifies all things.

by those who want to feel good about themselves without being put to the inconvenience of doing something.

I think the past might be our future, that we're busy laying the groundwork for new Dachaus, new Auschwitzes, all in the name of compassion, progress, justice, prosperity.

Even if I were in charge of making policy,' Zachariah said, 'I'd take the same course Dr Tamaguchi has.

I was a champion of the law (aluf shel halakha), a guardian of the natural law

high priests of a theocracy, deceive them and use them with no more compunction than they would feel after deceiving a hen to take her eggs or after using a hammer to drive a nail. To those who lack a conscience, there is no such thing as remorse.

But in war, you do the right thing, whatever it takes, and if you come out alive, you know how easy you could have screwed up, so bragging on it is dead-solid wrong. Only assholes do that.

freedom can't exist without the choice between right and wrong.

The choices we make, or fail to make, about which tasks we hand off to machines shape our lives and the place we make for ourselves in the world.

At Stone's direction, Harry removed ovaries, blinded the female rats, and removed their olfactory bulbs. Sightless, hormone-deprived—it didn't matter. The mother rats crawled determinedly toward the baby rats. They were slower, maybe, but the homing instinct was magnetic, needle to the north.

Human life must be cheap to the one who can place the dollar above it -John Ruston

I don't believe in working in any location, in any environment, for any people with a lack of integrity.

General Hideki Tojo ordered that the Sen Jin Kun, the Imperial Army's Battle Ethics, be distributed to all officers and men both at home and abroad. This order made the unwritten code of the samurai as interpreted by the Japanese High Command the required conduct of all Japanese servicemen. It ordered Japanese troops to embrace death warmly for the sake of the emperor-god and of the nation

Every wrong should be made right, and no right should be forgotten.

There are two public prosecutors, and one of them is at your door, punishing crimes against society; the other is nature herself. She is familiar with all those vices that escape the law.

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a ja nie lubi? k?amstwa, chyba ?e jest u?yteczne i nieodzowne.

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Tout a son vrai loyer dans ce monde. Il y a deux procureurs généraux, l'un à votre porte qui châtie les délits contre la société; la nature est l'autre. Celle-ci connaît de tous les vices qui échappent aux lois.

You spit on a petty thief, but you can't withhold a sort of respect from a great criminal. His courage bowls you over. His brutality makes you shudder. What you value in everything is consistency of character.

The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.