Quotes About Ethics

It's the injustice that I hate, more than anything," he'd said to Smee one night, his eyes red and glassy, slurring his words, his head lolling as he tried to focus. He'd vomited, and then promptly passed out on a bush. "I hate the world that does not work out fair.

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

When teenagers lie, it's often for the same reasons that adults do: to impress people, to advance themselves (academically, financially, or in some other way), to protect their friends, and — like Cain — to get out of trouble. While these reasons may make a lie understandable, they should never make lying acceptable . God doesn't wink at deception.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Ask yourself, What kind of person aspires to have sex with a comatose young woman? And how do you label someone who deliberately gets a girl drunk in order to do so?

That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of a river you called home.

They have that most strange and dangerous of qualities," said Cosca. "They think they're in the right.

When one man knowingly kills another, they call it murder! When society causes the deaths of thousands, they shrug and call it a fact of life.

A choice between killing and dying is no choice at all. You have to be realistic about these things. b

Still, it was better to swear an oath and never follow through than not even to bother with the oath. Wasn't it?

Men can have all manner of deeply held beliefs about the world in general that they find most inconvenient when called upon to apply to their own lives. Few people let morality get in the way of expediency. Or even convenience. A man who truly believes in a thing beyond the point where it costs him is a rare and dangerous thing.

I never saw men act with such ignorance, violence and self-serving malice as when energised by a just cause.

It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.

She never saw more damage done than by folk acting on high principle.

What's the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?

I've been on jobs like that before, everyone stuck on the money not the work, watching their backs every minute. Bad for your health and your business. We'll do this civilised, or not at all. What do you say? "I say civilised," said Shenkt. "For pity's sake, let's kill like honest men.

Evil is not the opposite of good. It is what we call another man's notion of good when it differs from ours.

There aren't many good things don't have a splinter of selfishness in them somewhere, after all.

Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent,' snapped Lorsen. 'Indeed,' said Cosca, significantly. 'The cock-rot is rarely fatal.

He'd done the right thing. Maybe. Or maybe there's no such thing.

You get what you give, in the long run, and manners cost nothing.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

the true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them aboslutely no good