Quotes About Ethics

Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

It can weigh on your mind, if you think very hard about a horse's life." He might have meant anything, but what came into her own head was Alfred Logerwell beating his horse with a pipe, and her dad's horses, and other horses she had known, horses who were gaunt, thirsty, lame, wounded, broken-winded, frightened, discouraged.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Good behaviour' at the start means keeping oneself upright and benign in the face of adversity. By the end it has become a byword for enacting cruelty and revenge on your nearest relatives, all, of course, with the utmost subtlety and discretion.

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

Most men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

Bad things happen when good people ignore them

Don't you think the soldiers look like they came straight from high school yearbooks, too young to be over in Iraq, fighting for no reason?

Pensar que otro te tiene que tratar bien porque tú eres una persona honesta es como esperar que el toro no te embista porque eres vegetariano.

As the sun is to the earth, so Honour is to a man. without it, he will not flourish. All else may fail you, but honour is the treasure no one can take from you, the shield no one can penetrate unless you let them. Honour is beautiful and clean. Honour is sacred.

You must pay taxes. But there's no law that says you gotta leave a tip.

As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter.

Bushido is not learning how to die. Bushido is learning how to live, how to protect and foster life. Even in war, the taking of human life is to be avoided as much as possible. It is always a sin to kill. Give your opponents every chance to make peace

Bushido is not learning how to die; it is learning how to live

True wisdom comes from intellectual education, physical education, ethical education, and ki education.

His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.

I've decided I don't want to play any more games treating human beings as objects. It's kind of sordid when you think about it, when you think it over.

You don't have to be nice all the time—just most of the time.

experiments, some of them rather gruesome. On one occasion, he fed two prisoners the same large dinner, sent one to bed and the other on a headlong hunt, then cut them open to see which had better digested the meal. (It was the sleeper.)

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.

El valor moral de un acto depende de la intención con que se realiza".

The truth ? the truth my dear Ashely is a luxury available only to those who are not involved in its consequences