Quotes About Ethics

Almost invariably people expected that if you were a good person you shouldn't meet a bad end, that only the deserving are killed. And certainly only the deserving are murdered.

And good men are very threatening to not good men.

And thought about tyranny, and murder. And whether it was ever right to kill one for the sake of the many.

I have no ideology beyond finding and defending that spot between freedom and safety.

Besides, while Gamache wanted very much to solve the crime, he didn't want to lose his soul in the process. He suspected there were enough lost souls already.

He'd once heard a judge say the most humane way to execute a prisoner was to tell him he was free. Then kill him. Gamache had struggled against that, argued against it, railed against it. Then finally, exhausted, had come to believe it.

Armand Gamache had no stomach to breach someone else's boundaries just because he could.

my beliefs comfort, they don't kill.

Situational ethics?

The population had a right to expect that people with a gun and a badge would also have self-control.

The terrible or the wonderful? The goodness or the cruelty? Your life will be decided by that choice.

Imagine a world where you could do anything. Anything. And get away with it,' said Myrna, warming to the topic again. 'What power. Who here wouldn't be corrupted?

No man is as bad as the worst thing he's done." "Why would he quote a death-row nun?" asked Joan.

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of character.

Here shall a realm rise Mighty in manhood; Justice and Mercy Here set a stronghold Safe without spear.

never judge anyone by their appearance, or the car they drive, or the house they live in, or even by the words they say. judge people by their actions. that's how you know whether they're bad or good." - perfect Summer

But we don't always go to church" -Emily "Caring about people doesn't just take place there. It's how you act out in the world, when no one is looking, where it really counts" -Dad

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

The problem, however, is that I have yet to meet anyone, materialist or otherwise, who was able to dispense with value judgements. On the contrary, the literature of materialism is peculiarly marked by its wholesale profusion of denunciations of all sorts. Starting with Marx and Nietzsche, materialists have never been able to refrain from passing continuous moral judgement on all and sundry, which their whole philosophy might be expected to discourage them from doing.