Quotes About Ethics

Don't be trying to give back pain for pain," he said. "You can't get even measures in business like this.

A civilization has the ethics it can afford. We

It does not disturb me to play a god, he said. It disturbs me to play a god badly.

Allen, it puzzles me that a man can shoot thirty-two full-grown men and women before the sheriff's men gun him down. You're more his time, maybe you can tell me. Why didn't someone just shoot the son of a bitch?

I just wondered if the puppeteers didn't get their name by playing god with the species around them. They've treated humans and kzinti like puppets; there's no denying that.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. - Mark Twain

Friends don't reprogram friends, even when they're able.

Jag ställer egentligen bara ett moraliskt krav på mänskligheten, men ett ganska strängt: att den skall älska mig.

Should have shames a good slave. It shames a good man, period.

This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart—and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.

We always have a choice. That's what Grady said too. What does that even mean? That there is a right thing to do and there is a wrong thing to do. Simple. Judgmental. And if you are the person someone is asking that question about, you have chosen wrong—as if the world is divided between the people who have never made a big mistake. And the people who have.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. —Groucho Marx

Not that I'm saying that I didn't have a choice in working for them. I believe you always have a choice. And the choice I made was to defend people who, by law, deserve a proper defense. There's honor in that. I never lied to my family about

This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart—and they often start from the same valiant

It was the sort of corruption Alex expected to hear about happening south of the border, not in her own backyard.

A good horseman always takes care of his horses before he eats or rests.

Well, Caroline, it's pleasant to be with a crowd of people all trying to do the right thing, same as we are.

But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.

Sometimes you have to destroy things, even people, in order to save them. (7)

Draw your sword with honour, sheathe it with courage. - Shatai-kaj motto

Compounds like wedding cake, suet plum-puddings, and rich turtle soup, are masses of indigestible material, which should never find their way to any Christian table (Shapiro citing Mary Peabody Mann, Christianity in the Kitchen).

Later, she also saw that innocence need be nothing of the kind, and that conventional morality might have its own impurity.

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I'm not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.