Quotes About Ethics

In all of my years doing this job, I have never given the drug to anyone over three months pregnant; not once, because everybody listens to me, except you.

Come work for me, and I'll tell you." My eyes went to his. "You are a thief, a cheat, a murderer, and a not-nice man," I said calmly. "I don't like you." He shrugged, the motion making him look utterly harmless. "I'm not a thief," he said. "And I don't mind manipulating you into working for me when I need it." He smiled, showing me perfect teeth. "I enjoy it, actually.

Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself

Some nasty bitch of a woman from the coven of moral and ethical standards tried to fry Rache the pixy said apparently proud of it. I pixed the Tink-blasted dildo, and Rache's black-arts boyfriend blew her right out the front door. Bam!

There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

Was using "dead-man's-toe" morally okay if the man's relatives had knowingly sold him for parts?

Piscary killed people, but he didn't have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people. But Trent? He knew he was doing wrong, and he did it anyway.

It wasn't that the dark side was stronger, but that everything was the dark side. All magic was inherently wrong, and it was only us fooling ourselves that some of it was good, some of it was bad. Magic…just was.

Not everything was legal, but nothing was immoral, and that was my guide these days.

Power doesn't corrupt. Power brings what we are to the top, is all," I said, thinking of all the ugly I had fought against. "Be it good or bad.

Just what I need. My own personal shoulder devil, wearing black and smelling like the Garden of Eden.

If you're somewhere new every day, you feel no accountability. You don't care who you hurt. You do what you want and damn the rest because you won't be there for the fallout.

I hate it when people use stuff and don't replace

Shades of gray, I thought, knowing I was slipping into places I had vowed I'd never go.

It's the love of right lures men to wrong.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot.

This is what the human story is, not the emperors and the generals and their wars, but the nameless actions of people who are never written down, the good they do for others passed on like a blessing, just doing for strangers what your mother did for you, or not doing what she always spoke against. And all that carries forward and makes us what we are.

Sometimes I think it's only post-scarcity that evil exists. Before that, it could always be put down to want or fear. It was possible to believe, as apparently you did, that when fear and want went away, bad deeds would too. Humanity would be revealed as some kind of bonobo, an altruistic cooperator, a lover of all.

But to say self-interest is all that exists, or that it should be given free rein! My Lord. Believe that and nothing matters but money.

It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.

good is accomplished against the immense black-hole gravity of greed and fear.

if you program a purpose into a computer program, does that constitute its will? Does it have free will, if a programmer programmed its purpose?

The invisible hand never picks up the check.