Quotes About Ethics

Men, again, who live up to the moral law, wont enslave their brethren.

There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." --Luke Skywalker

Nate might be a poor dumb bastard, but at least he wasn't a dishonest, fraudulent dumb bastard, and that ought to count for something.

Man has the right to act in conscience and in freedom so as personally to make moral decisions. "He must not be forced to act contrary to his conscience. Nor must he be prevented from acting according to his conscience, especially in religious matters

Over the pope as the expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there still stands one's own conscience, which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority.

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?" (Pirkei Avot 1:14)

Lieutenant Commander Galloway [behind a chain link fence at a ball field]: Do you know what a code red is? Lieutenant Kaffee, standing on the ball field, looks at her in silence with a blank expression on his face. Galloway: What a pity.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor. - Lt.j.g Daniel A Kaffee

LTJG Kaffee: I want the truth! Col Jessup: You can't handle the truth!

You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor.

He's not a bad guy, deep down," I said. My dad slipped the key into the door. "Deep down, no one is. But you make choices.

Now, as we all know, a group of dolphins is called a pod, a group of crows is called a murder, and so on. Henceforth, I'd like all groups of people who call themselves reporters but are actually only bloggers writing listicles to be known as a scumbag.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!

It came to that" the first time you sentenced a man to death that you knew to be innocent.

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.

A new danger lies in wait for the Arabo-Muslim societies: the ethical void, cretinization through sex, systematic infantilization. The negation of traditional references is certainly a necessary stage in our history, but the negation of those references is still a reference. The great risk is precisely non-reference. The easy models of sexual behaviour, imported from North America or Europe, relentlessly diffused through all the mass media, do not help us to find much meaning in sexuality.

Même si tu te trouves en position de force, ne le montre pas, et surtout ne t'en sers jamais!! Le fait d'avoir l'autorité ultime et la responsabilité directe de l'accès à une source d'eau ou à une rivière, ne t'autorise pas à priver les autres d'eau.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.