Quotes About Ethics

Almost anyone can bear adversity…but if you want to reveal someone's true character, give them power.

We can only be responsible for what we ourselves do.

Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.

Gordian pays you to sleep with unicorn hunters. That's the definition of a whore.

When we have the ability to save someone's life, and we decide they aren't worthy of being saved—isn't that playing God as well?

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that's one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that's entirely different.

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

She was many things, but a liar was not one of them.

Sometimes, though, you could do the right thing and still feel sick with doubt.

To see the right thing to do and not to do it is cowardice.

That's what you need to be writing about. Not the increased crime rate, but the increased tolerance for criminals to do whatever they want and not be held accountable.

Isn't Chief worried about the Dan Rather-James Brady syndrome? Getting the news first -- if it's incorrect? And if that wasn't enough, then in 2004, Rather turned around and did it again when he didn't confirm President George Bush's military records and broadcast a bogus story about President Bush." -- excerpt from "Love Thy Neighbor" ©2012. by Diane Moore

dianemoorewriter.com February 11, 2015 · From Love Thy Neighbor" On journalism and news purists as well as why I pursued print instead of TV journalism/news at the No. 1 journalism school in the country: news reporters are willing to take risks "so that people can base their lives on a foundation of truth not lies. That's why I do it -- to be the one responsible voice in the crowd." Page 105' "Love Thy Neighbor

Someone put her out of her misery if she ever became impervious to taking a life, when squeezing the trigger stopped being a regret.

Today's immoral quick fix is tomorrow's gaping and painful wound that never heals.

One of his central commands is a commonplace of ancient philosophy, and is a conclusion at which most world religions eventually arrive: 'whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them' – what has come to be known as the Golden Rule.18

If horses can't eat it, I won't play on it.

Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."

May I deal with honour May I act with courage May I achieve humility

But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tell a lie?' 'You say "how very interesting" and change the subject.

Yet all we had was here and now, and here and now was always where the struggle toward goodness had to be fought. Toward virtue, morality, uprightness, order: call it what one liked. A long ever-recurring battle.