Quotes About Ethics

The Bible nowhere says that animals are just made for human use. It does not say that the whole earth is just ours to do with as we like. Neither does it say that God's sole interest is with the human species. We cannot allow such an important and influential book to become the preserve of those who want to exploit animals. The Bible needs to be read, studied, and reclaimed for the animals.

I mean consider how very horrible it is to read the accounts which sometimes meet us of cruelty inflicted on brute animals. For what was this but the very cruelty inflicted upon our Lord?," John Henry Newman

The worst thing you can be in this job is partial, invested. You just have to get good at turning that off. You have to see the bodies as bodies, not as people. They were people once, of course, fuelled by food and water, driven by electrical impulses. But then, for whatever reason, the power got turned off. The lights went out. They were transformed into meat.

Modesty means that you insist that men delight in you at the right time and in the right place and in the right way and we dictate what that means …

Some of the greatest of great men have also been the biggest bastards

In order to follow your heart, one must do the wrong thing

I'm still not ready to throw away my moral compass, even if I can't read it.

They give you the chance to tell small lies so they can see how you handle the bigger ones. There's a reason lawyers tell you to shut up when a cop talks to you. If you're lucky, that's the first and last time a cop ever

One of his best techniques was buying off the clerks that handled the procedural work for judges. We found numerous examples of major cases that were dismissed or postponed because a clerk lost evidence or changed filings, creating procedural errors.

The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don't see as bad. It's why people who would give the shirt off their back to help the poor and the hungry will then march against genetically modified food, even if such food products could save millions of children from blindness or starvation. It's when people who want democracy in the Middle East find themselves building military bases instead of schools and hospitals.

The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don't see as bad.

Killing is a solution to a problem. Murder is something you do because you want to.

The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don't see as bad. It's why people who would give the shirt off their back to help the poor and the hungry will then march against genetically modified food, even if such food products could save millions of children from blindness or starvation

Leviticus 24:16

the vast majority of cops are good people doing a very difficult job. Even the assholes I've had to deal with were looking out for everyone else.

I'm not gonna let them go easy on me knowing he's out there hurting some other kid. How can a decent person live with that?" Indeed. Even a guy like Artice, who's caused his share of mayhem, sees that.

Tell me something so that when you look your god in the eye, you can convince yourself you're a good man.

While legal lines sharply define what can and cannot be done, our personal sense of right and wrong doesn't necessarily hew so closely to them.

If I were a patient here, I'd argue that I should only be billed for the time when staff wasn't looking at their phone. They'd probably end up owing me money.

I committed murder. That doesn't weigh heavily on me. I believe I made the morally correct choice.

Does it matter that the executioner likes his job?

This is some next-level Lance Armstrong bionic shit going on.

We just used grenades and MP7s," says Hughes. "That doesn't exactly sound humane," replies Kell. "Those crocodiles were all members of ISIS. My commander told me so.

The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don't see as bad. It's why people who would give the shirt off their back to help the poor and the hungry will then march against genetically modified food, even if such food products could save millions of children from blindness or starvation. It's when people who want democracy in the Middle East find themselves building military bases instead of schools