Quotes About Ethics

No hay que prestar más dinero del que uno estaría dispuesto a regalarle a quien le asesta el sablazo.

In fact, nothing can be imposed on a writer of fiction, who doesn't need to ask permission to introduce any real person or sequence of events he happens to know about into his fiction; if he decides to, then nothing and no one can prevent him. We aren't trustworthy people and some of us are heartless, though I don't think I am.

Sim, é ridículo que depois de tantos séculos de prática, e de incríveis avanços e inventos, não haja ainda uma maneira de saber quando alguém mente; é claro que isso nos beneficia e prejudica a todos por igual, talvez seja o único reduto de liberdade que nos resta.

La responsabilidad siempre es ajena, y es tan fácil esparcirla…

I do things by the book, even when the book is stupid. You know why? That's how we get the conviction.

Keep the progress, but recover the lost values. Technically, then he's talking about renaissance: the rebirth of old ideas in a new framework.

Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

The right to challenge a man's judgment carries with it no automatic right to question his honor.

Ideologen sind Leute, die glauben, dass die Menschheit besser sei als der Mensch.

I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.

In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.

Jamie, when the stakes are high, I never cheat. I consider myself too important to do that.

At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.

Let's be honest about journalists: We find a lot of ways of being wrong.

The bad news is that if we do in fact get off the earth we will contaminate the rest of the universe with our moral insufficiency.

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

where reporters were not constrained by the interests of the local chamber of commerce.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

Humans have learned to split the atom. Instead of killing ten or twenty people with a wooden club, one person can now kill a million just by pushing a button. Is that real change?