Quotes About Ethics

My father wasna always gentle, but he was usually fair," Jamie said imperturbably. "He said the truth is the truth, and people should take responsibility for their own actions, which is right.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Still, when had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial? Was a struggle to choose one's own destiny less worthwhile than the necessity to stop a great evil?

A forced oath canna bind a man, though, or keep him from his knowledge of right.

Well, the Church does teach that self-abuse is a sin, but my father said he thought that if it came to a choice between abusin' yourself or some poor woman, a decent man might choose to make the sacrifice.

A man killed with a musket was just as dead as one killed with a mortar. It was just that the mortar killed impersonally, destroying dozens of men, while the musket was fired by one man who could see the eyes of the one he killed. That made it murder, it seemed to me, not war. How many men to make a war? Enough, perhaps, so they didn't really have to see each other?

The sins of the fathers," I murmured to myself. "The sins of the fathers shall not be visited upon the children.

I had no need to ask or to wonder whether he would keep his word. He had freed me once from Wentworth, because he had given his word to do so. His word, once given, was his bond. Jack Randall was a gentleman.

therefore you have little guidance other than your own conscience and the hand of God. I cannot tell you what you should do, or not do.

Some jobs in medicine require a certain ruthlessness to complete successfully; detachment is necessary to inflict pain in the process of effecting a healing

I was having trouble with the scale of things. A man killed with a musket was just as dead as one killed with a mortar. It was just that the mortar killed impersonally, destroying dozens of men, while the musket was fired by one man who could see the eyes of the one he killed. That made it murder, it seemed to me, not war. How many men to make a war? Enough, perhaps, so they didn't really have to see each other?

I don't hold wi' rape, and we've not the time for it, anyway." I was pleased to hear this statement of policy, dubious as its moral underpinning might be

I don't hold wi' rape, and we've not the time for it, anyway." I was pleased to hear this statement of policy

it was uncivilized to use physical force in order to make your point of view prevail.

A man who spends his time pokin' his ....... nose into other's sinfulness has nay time to tend his own.

Faith is as powerful a force as science," he concluded, voice soft in the darkness, "—but far more dangerous." We

Always, always, I had had to balance compassion with wisdom, love with judgment, humanity with ruthlessness.

It is easier to kill someone to save your own life than it is to hurt someone to save theirs.

You know what scholars are like; no conscience at all when it comes to their own field, let alone a sense of social delicacy.

No, blast it! I can't even shoot the bastard, without dishonoring my brother's sworn word!

She raised a thick, ruddy brow at him. "You never heard of benign hypocrisy? I thought they teach you stuff like that when you go to minister school. Since you mention gassing away about morality. That's a minister's job, too, isn't it?

the truth is the truth, and people should take responsibility for their own actions

Adaletle zorbal?k aras?nda çok ince bir çizgi var.

You're honorable. I know it, and so do you." He smiled a little at that. "I try to be. But war's war, Sassenach. Honor only makes it a bit easier to live wi' yourself, afterward.