Quotes About Ethics

In my world, people are always plotting. You have no idea of all the crimes people in business commit every day. Like it was nothing. Or there's a set of special rules for them. Remember when Bush made that whole speech about 'corporate ethics' last year? What a fraud. You think stuff like Enron or WorldCom is an aberration? It's only the tip. Business is a religion. Probably the only one practiced all over the world.

The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.

Don't like fish. They eat drowned sailors – don't seem right to eat them in return.

Luckily, American politicians tend to be cheaply bought and we have been able to outbid the Kaiser.

Do I want his dirty money, sir?" "No such thing, my boy! The man who earns it may be disgusting; the way he does it may be corrupt; but the gold shines clean and pure!

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)

They are not demons, not devils... Worse than that. They are people.

When there's hunger you don't share out your food, you just devour the weakest ones. This practice works among wolves, since it lets the healthiest and strongest individuals survive. But among sentient races selection of that kind usually allows the biggest bastards to survive and dominate the rest.

Well, what can I say, it's a base world,' he finally muttered. 'But that's no reason for us all to become despicable.

Become a priest. You wouldn't be bad at it with all your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people and of everything. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem—I don't know many priests who do.

And so it's an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? Blood for blood? And for that blood, more blood? A sea of blood? Do you want to drown the world in blood? O naive, damaged girl! Is that how you mean to fight evil, little witcher?

Draw me not without reason; sheath me not without honour".

Como muy bien has advertido, esto no es un cuento, sino la vida real. Terrible y malvada. Y por eso, maldita sea, vivámosla lo mejor y más decentemente posible. Limitemos la cantidad de los daños realizados a otros al mínimo indispensable.

If I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.

As you correctly observed, this isn't a fairy tale, it's life. Lousy and evil. And so, damn it all, let's live it decently and well. Let's keep the amount of harm done to others to the absolute minimum.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster; for if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.

But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.

Z?o to z?o. Mniejsze, wi?ksze, ?rednie, wszystko jedno, proporcje s? umowne a granice zatarte (...), je?eli mam wybiera? pomi?dzy jednym z?em a drugim, to wol? nie wybiera? wcale.

Murder is always murder, regardless of motive or circumstance. Thus those who murder or who prepare to murder are malefactors and criminals, regardless of who they may be: kings, princes, marshals or judges. None who contemplates and commits violence has the right to consider himself better than an ordinary criminal. Because it is in the nature of all violence to lead inevitably to crime.

Murder is always murder, regardless of motive or circumstance. Thus those who murder or who prepare to murder are malefactors and criminals, regardless of who they may be: kings, princes, marshals or judges. None who contemplates and commits violence has the right to consider himself better than an ordinary criminal. Because it is in the nature of all violence to lead inevitably to crime. Nicodemus de Boot, Meditations on Life, Happiness and Prosperity

The game is called," said the witcher slowly, "don't do unto others what you would not have them do to you.' You don't have to