Quotes About Ethics

There's a fine line between justice and revenge. The difference is in the motive.

Somewhere between childhood and adulthood we can lose our sense of conscience if we're not careful.

The right thing to do is often not the most prudent thing to do,

It sucks that he did that to you." "I was consenting." Cleo didn't know why she kept excusing the situation with that. Consenting and unethical were two different things.

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

You don't need a search warrant to go through someone's trash. Seriously. Once it hits the curb it is totally fair game-you an look it up.

You cannot con an honest man.

She'd absolutely adored the library-an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

But guilt isn't smart. It isn't logical. It doesn't only live in the places it belongs.

Honor is overrated.

Here's the thing about lying: a part of you has to mean it—even if it is a tiny, sinister, shred that only lives in the blackest, darkest parts of your mind. You have to want it to be true.

Kat was more prone to simply making sure the very fancy college that Lady Georgette was going to be attending found out that the girl had had "help" with her entrance exams. There

Not knowing what the W's stood for had become a constant reminder to Kat that, in life, there are things that can be given but never stolen

bad things for good reasons

Alex never killed hares.

Are Shareem slaves?" she asked. Slavery had been outlawed for millennia on Ariel, but she knew that some planetary systems still practiced it. "No," Talan said quickly. "Well," Rio drawled. "We can be if you want.

La cuestión no era la bondad o la maldad de las personas, sino la naturaleza de sus ideas.

y que la verdad es sólo la parte de la verdad que nos conviene, y

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

The violation of the existence and natures of things, of oneself, or of others is evil. Disrespect encroaches upon the space of others, and alters or empties their nature. Respect is respect for the limits, the boundaries, the space of others, and thus for their natures. Morally good action designates the active respect for others, for things, and also for ourselves.

Human nature as we know it is, nevertheless, malleable and manageable. It may be radically modified as a result of advances in bio-, molecular, nano- and computational technologies. It will therefore be essential to establish a clear code of ethics regulating the use of these technologies sooner rather than later.

Some of your colleagues stress the public's right to know, and they forget the people they want to 'speak out' are a part of that public.

Unfortunately, it's hard to make rules constraining lawyers, because many lawyers earn their living by obeying the letter of the law while evading its intent.

Seneca, the Roman moralist, called unchastity "the greatest evil of our time". In light of this pronounced deterioration of marriage, countless Roman women engaged in adulterous sex, and when they became pregnant, they destroyed the evidence of their sexual indiscretions, thus adding to Rome's widespread abortions.