Quotes About Ethics

Once mere excuses are allowed, inevitably lesser and lesser excuses will become acceptable, until law itself is gone.

If anyone could break any rule they chose, do whatever they chose, and escape punishment merely by doing some good to balance it, the world would be chaos.

She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone who was not poor. Of course, that would just make everyone poor in the end, but it might work for a time.

He could end it. Only, he could not. He was going to die, perhaps the world would die, but he could not make himself kill another woman. Somehow

Let any man as wants start carrying a sword, and soon we'd be as bad as everyplace else. I heard what they're like, Mistress, and we don't want that here.

A man, he'll cheat you—but he'll do it honestly.

the world was not black and white—it wasn't even gray. It was full of colors that sometimes didn't fit into any spectrum of morality.

People who claimed they were collecting money to help others often had a way of letting a good bit stick in their own pockets, or else they liked the power that spreading it about gave them, liked it far too much.

If you have no gratitude, have you no shame?

When there were no good choices, you had to choose the one that seemed least wrong.

It is no treason to do what must be done. And even blasphemy can be tolerated for a cause.

Just because one was poor was not a reason – or an excuse – to live without law.

Nynaeve shook her head. She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone who was not poor. Of course, that would just make everyone poor in the end, but it might work for a time

the media run everything, yeah, but they shouldn't run the law, too.

Karp was an innocent and he believed in justice. That made him one of the most dangerous men in the building.

the onerous part of being the district attorney was putting up with an exploitative and sensationalizing media and dealing with a myriad of special-interest groups, all of whom thought they were being ignored, or discriminated against, or deserved more, and all of whom knew that they could do his job better than he could. He was also tired of watching incompetent judges and ethically challenged lawyers make a mockery of the system.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

You tell me I have to crush a field of babies to keep breathing? Sure. You say people who rely on me aren't going to live unless I turn someone's head into a bowl of gravy? I'm there. I don't feel bad about it. I don't think about it. It just is what it is. It's survival.

Lo que hemos hecho por sobrevivir... A veces siento que no somos mejores que los muertos.

I'd rather be a piece of work than a piece of shit.

You kill? You die. It's as simple as that.

Kimse bilerek kötülüÄŸü seçmez. Onu yaln?zca, arad??? iyilik ve mutlulukla kar??t?r?r.

si la gente percibe a tu negocio como una organización desalmada, corres el riesgo de salir del negocio en muy poco tiempo.

In the absence of The King the Warrior becomes a mercenary, the Magician becomes a sophist (able to argue any position and believing in none), and the Lover becomes an addict.