Quotes About Ethics

To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

I found that I couldn't muster any belief in a literal heaven or hell, anyway. I thought the best we could all do was to look after one another and clean up the various hells we've made right here on earth.

But if everyone could feel everyone else's pain, who would torture? Who would cause anyone unnecessary pain?

In small communities, she believed, people are more accountable to one another. Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have any business doing what you're doing.

That's what Humans are, too, don't forget. People who poison each other, then disclaim all responsibility.

He wasn't a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.

I wonder what a badge is, other than a license to steal.

More people die           Of unenlightened self-interest           Than of any other disease.

We're an adaptable species," she said, refusing to be stopped, "but it's wrong to inflict suffering just because your victim can endure it." "Learn

You want to know how moral she is?" His tone made me frown. "What do you mean?" "If she chases me any harder, she and I will wind up playing a scene from that Bible she reads. The scene between Potiphar's wife and Joseph.

Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage.

His father wasn't the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn't a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.

Once people get the idea that it's all right to take what you want and destroy the rest, who knows when they'll stop.

This would be so goddamn much easier if I weren't human," she said. "Think about it. If I weren't human, why the hell would I care whether you got raped?

You controlled both animals and people by controlling their reproduction—controlling it absolutely.

There are times when I wish I believed in hell—other than the hells we make for one another, I mean.

How could sane people like the ones he had left behind in Phoenix do such a thing—or, how could they let insane people gain control of devices that could do so much harm? If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power.

They consider it a sin to take any life, yet they kill and kill.

Kevin, você não precisa bater nas pessoas para tratá-las com brutalidade.

To them it's like deliberately causing the conception of a child who is so defective that it must die in infancy.

I wonder what you have to do to become a cop. I wonder what a badge is, other than a license to steal.

She could not make herself ask whether he would be conscious and aware during these experiments. She hoped he would be.

Act as a kind of gang? No. Not quite a gang. We aren't gang types. I don't want gang types with their need to dominate, rob and terrorize. And yet we might have to dominate. We might have to rob to survive, and even terrorize to scare off or kill enemies. We'll have to be very careful how we allow our needs to shape us. But we must have arable land, a dependable water supply, and enough freedom from attack to let us establish ourselves and grow.

Politicians, on the other hand, are short-term thinkers, opportunists, sometimes with consciences, but opportunists nevertheless.