Quotes About Ethics

Who's the truth good for anyway but the guilty?

Just don't ever tell yourself that you didn't know.... That would be the worst crime of all.

The women are always the whores; the priests are always the good men who were led astray.

Is it really that easy for the innocent to be corrupted?

You have many years ahead of you to come to terms with your complicity in these matters. Just don't ever tell yourself that you didn't know." She released him now from her grip. "That would be the worst crime of all.

Don't you have any principles, Tristan? he asks me. Principles for which you would lay down your life? No, I say. People perhaps, but not principles. What good are they?

uniforms allow us to exercise our cruelty without ever feeling guilt.

he could never understand the enjoyment some people got from hurting others. And that, he told Anshel, applied to chickens too.

I'm not sure any cause is worth giving your life for

I blame Steve Jobs. And that Zuckerberg fellow. All those clever little psychopaths who couldn't get laid in high school but make up for their sexual inadequacy by inventing technology that destroys humanity. They're the Oppenheimers of the twenty-first century.

Their "strange Divinity" results from their lacking any sense of right or wrong, good or bad.

These authors posit that a value is not a value unless it has seven elements. They are: 1. It must be chosen. 2. There must be alternatives. 3. You must know the consequences of your choice. 4. Once chosen you prize and cherish it. 5. You are willing to publicly proclaim it. 6. You act on this value. 7. You act on it consistently and repeatedly.

My new book on moral intelligence calls these patriarchies "cultures of obedience," and presents an ethics of virtues as a way to avoid such moral totalism.

Votre pays, le mien, tous les pays du monde, partagent la même cause, et le résultat, c'est que des gens qui s'en foutent comme d'une fiente de baleine sont envoyés pour tuer des femmes et des enfants. La voilà, la cause de tous les pays ! Et vous savez ce que c'est que cette cause ? Pour moi, c'est de la rapacité pure et simple, et elle me pue au nez ! »

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

Better, though difficult, the right way to go. Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.

A saint abroad and a devil at home.

there is more virtue in one sin to destroy, than in all thy righteousness to save thee alive.

For if we freely let our lusts reign, it is sin. While it seems bad to hold back such feeling based on our opinions, yet not to do so is worse. When a person stumbles accidentally it is bad enough, but allowing your lusts to go unbridled leads into the snare.

Three, no matter what career you choose, do your best to hold high its traditional professional values, now swiftly eroding, in which serving the client is always the highest priority. And don't ignore the greater good of your community, your nation, and your world. As William Penn pointed out, "We pass through this world but once, so do now any good you can do, and show now any kindness you can show, for we shall not pass this way again."   As

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

You must do right before you feel good.

President Abraham Lincoln said, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

How people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours." —Wayne W. Dyer