Quotes About Ethics

because of my deep-seated opinion that war itself is a crime; that the killing of one child, the burning of one village, the dropping of one bomb sinks us into such depths of depravity that there's no use bickering over the particulars.

People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage.

She has a sign in her office: TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS REQUIRED.

and confronting the civic hypocrites who put care in the language but seldom in the budget.

It is what we do routinely, not what we do rarely, that delineates the character of a person.

was greed that broke Wall Street, not the lack of financial algorithms.

All medical men are voyeurs. Why else would they become doctors? Except for the sadists, of course, who simply enjoy the blood and the pain.

Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice... and settling for revenge.

There were some things even the rules of an absolute human overlord had no right to deny, and one of them was justice

There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

Dr. James Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women, published in 1765

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

We have the best congressmen that money can buy.

Human beings had been created with a free will that made them choose to be one of the good guys or one of the bad guys. These days, unfortunately, more and more people seemed to be taking the low road.

God damn. I needed to either fuck her of fire her, because this in-between shit was not workin' for me. "Course Gage wanted her crew working out at The Line permanently, so I guess that meant firing was off the table. Okay, then, I'd take one for the team and fuck her.

Once a man disposes a body for you, the moral high ground has been lost.

Yeah, this good-guy bullshit wasn't his gig at all.

Ironically, a Slave Power–less Congress confirmed a long-held truism about the code of honor: it did indeed force men to watch their words.

What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer

What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer .... What good is your reality then?

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

It didn't fit her ideas of who was bad, and who was good, and what was a happy ending, and what wasn't.