Quotes About Ethics

In the long run principles are just more important than expediency.

Don't lie, don't steal and always be early.

por muy valioso que fuera, nadie está por encima de la ley.

Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.

If you're not a hero, does that make you a villain?

Like me, she has scruples. Why is it that only people with money have scruples? Do we have no money BECAUSE we have scruples?

It's about doing the right thing even if you don't want to do it. About taking responsibility for your actions...it's about letting go when you really, really want to hold on so bad.

There are no heroes in the world, only good-looking villains.

I think the message of goodness over beauty is a valuable one. I wish the world knew it.

I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off

Your duty is to society, and the dead have always been a part of society. How we treat the dead says much about us.

Exitus probatur," he said. The end is justified. "Ergo acta probantur," said one of the waiting men. Therefore the means are justified.

It is the way of the world that goodness is often repaid by badness.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

There are always rules," Gwen said, serious again. "Good is held to them, evil is not. Sort of an unfair advantage right from the start." Marco

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, what you do—is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is the light that guides your way. —HERACLITUS

No worthy end can ever really be accomplished with unworthy means.

I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me.

Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.

This theory, then, is in the first place based on an erroneous assumption--viz., that abstinence from things lawful is intrinsically a higher sort of virtue than temperance in the use of them. This is not true. Abstinence is the virtue of the weak, temperance is the virtue of the strong.

You don't question the right of the government to kill, to confiscate and imprison. If a private person should be guilty of the things the government is doing all the time, you'd brand him a murderer, thief and scoundrel. But as long as the violence committed is "lawful," you approve of it and submit to it. So it is not really violence that you object to, but to people using violence "unlawfully.

We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong.... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

Waiters and escorts both know that indiscretion is a career-ending move. You reveal a secret only if you are never going back again.

I think the first duty of society is justice.