Quotes About Ethics

We have moved away from traditional Judeo-Christian values toward a worldview that lets us self-select values based on whether they serve our self-interests. Like a child loose in a candy store, we pick our values, we determine our own fate, we captain our own ship.

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

But it's a tradition, as if that alone is reason enough. Slavery and buying your wife were traditions, too.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one.

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

For who needs devils when you have men?

The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere inbetween.

To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

No lo entiendo. ¿Aquí quién es el bueno? —No siempre hay un bueno. Ni siempre hay un malo. Casi todo el mundo está en algún punto intermedio.

There's always a choice," Viola says by my side. "Oh, people like to say that," the Mayor says. "It makes them feel better.

People with really stiff morals are easier to tip over.

Siempre hay que escuchar con escepticismo la justificación de los hombres que matan

To allow someone, anyone, to suffer is the greatest sin there is.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between. Conor

Doing what's right should be easy.

Pero un cuchillo no es solamente un objeto, ¿verdad? Es una elección entre alternativas. Sí o no, cortar o no cortar, matar o no matar. Un cuchillo recoge la decisión que tomes y la convierte en un hecho real, tangible, que ya no puede remediarse.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere inbetween. Conor shook his head. "That's a terrible story. And a cheat." It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

But you can't make war personal," I say, "or you'll never make the right decisions." "And if you didn't make personal decisions, you wouldn't be a person.

Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you. Friedrich Nietzsche

You have let your devil get away from you." He looked genuinely confused. "To what other purpose is a devil?

Cómo puede una reina ser a la vez una bruja buena y una bruja mala? ¿Cómo puede un príncipe ser a la vez un asesino y un salvador? ¿Cómo puede un boticario tener un carácter del demonio pero ser recto en sus principios? ¿Cómo puede un párroco tener malos pensamientos y un buen corazón? ¿Cómo es posible que los hombres invisibles estén más solos cuando consiguen que todo el mundo los vea?