Quotes About Ethics

a diplomat is an honest man sent abroad to lie for the good of his country.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." —J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb upon seeing the first test detonation

We hang the petty thieves. The master thieves we appoint to public office.

When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.

Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.

A crooked peace officer is just a damned abomination," McCarthy wrote. "That's all you can say about it. He's ten times worse than the criminal."48

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

There can he greater, more authentic piety in a man's curses than in the sanctimonious prayers of the religious. As

If there is an abiding theme in The Pursuit of Happiness it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories. How you then grapple with everything life throws in your path—and how your own sense of ethics dictates so much about your dealings with life's larger questions—determines so much. "Character

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

A country that believes it has never done any wrong is a country that could do wrong at any time. But a country that believes it has only done wrong, or done such a terrible, unalleviated amount of wrong in the past, is likely to become a country that is inclined to doubt its ability to ever do any good in the future.

T. S. Eliot memorably described it, an effort at 'dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good'.

Bret Weinstein

But even more egregious cases could be found. The worst, to local eyes, was that of people who had no right to be cooking the food they were cooking because their DNA was wrong. In 2017 there was the case of a couple who opened a food truck selling burritos. According to the new local rules, this couple were guilty of cultural appropriation – specifically of 'stealing' Mexican culture by selling burritos while not being Mexican.

Sea como fuere, toda exhibición de virtud requiere exagerar los problemas, lo que a su vez hace que los problemas crezcan todavía más.

Dr Johanna Olson-Kennedy.

Honestly, I am less concerned about gangs with guns than the woman at the end of the driveway holding a baby and asking for food." He paused, and sighed, "I don't want to be in that moral dilemma.

The fact is that the preference for ignorance over even marginal reductions in ignorance is never the moral high ground.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a morality will be imposed in that education, but rather which morality will be imposed.

Propaganda (things to be propagated) is inescapable. It is not *whether* certain values will be propagated, but rather, *which* values will be propagated.

if God doesn't want us to do it, He doesn't want us to get pleasure from thinking about doing it

Nine times out of ten, the coarse word is the word that condemns an evil and the refined word the word that excuses it. G.

One of the central problems with bringing up children in our day is the constant temptation to underestimate their capacities. We teach them profane and irreverent little ditties, not psalms and hymns. We give them moralistic little stories, not biblical doctrine and ethics. We expect them to act as though they have no brains or souls until they have graduated from college. We aim at nothing, and we hit it every time.