Quotes About Ethics

A fish might more easily live on the apex of a rock than a man accustomed to crime live a life of virtue. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")

Sadece arac? olduklar? iyiliklerden ötürü erdemleriyle gurur duyan insanlar, kaçamayacaklar? saçmal?klar da yaparlar.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

If you find out she sidelined money to pay off a porn star, she's toast. Oh wait—that's ok now." "Only for men

We always have a choice, Colonel Zuko. From the day we're born. The choice to do good. Or the choice to do evil. - President Kyler

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

A truth that's told with bad intention beats all the lies you can invent.

He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never bebeloved by men.

Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent.

Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.

We bomb homes, and these people have families -- and the U.S. refuses to apologize for these civilian deaths. The absence of concern makes their actions almost equal to a deliberate targeting of civilians.

When will the dropping of bombs on innocent civilians by the United States, and invading and occupying their country, without their country attacking or threatening the US, become completely discredited?

It is when the pirates count their booty, that they become mere thieves.

In short, she (Seraphina) had luck and judgment, but no morals.

No human being is entirely innocent

Nevertheless, to keep a good conscience, and walk in such a way as God has prescribed in his word, is a thing which I must prefer before you all, and above life itself.

Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

The Light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed The Shadow of Shadows looks on the deed alone.

You saw the race riots in Watts. . . . Do nice people go around burning and looting — and even killing? Not since last night. When our Marines razed a village outside Khe Sanh in North Vietnam.