Quotes About Ethics

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

the path of rectitude is a straight one, and that he who steps into devious byways is going astray.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning. People who cheat assume everyone cheats. People who deceive assume everybody deceives. Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998

The man who was going to sound out Roeder was just about their only mainstay at Pokorny. Was it permissible to risk one man's life for another's? Under what conditions was it permissible? Hermann weighed it all in his mind, back and forth, and came to the conclusion that yes, it was permissible. Not only permissible, but necessary.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and put down for what they

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, 'Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?

We shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.

I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

You did right my boy, whether the fellow gets a summons or not. Many folks would have ridden by and said 'twas not their business to interfere. Now, I say, that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Now look, for instance, at the way they serve dogs, cutting off their tails to make them look plucky, and shearing up their pretty little ears to a point to make them look sharp

do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.

Ethics is knowing what you have a right to do, and what is right to do' Potter Stewart

She wasn't sure which motivation made better fuel for innovation: naïve but ethical beliefs, or the need to survive.

She could taste a nuanced ethical understanding of the patent system all over his body.

Every master loves to fuck a slave. It is a law of nature, or maybe culture.

She was designed to look human, her face the replica of a woman whose image Med's tissue engineer had licensed from an old Facebook database.

When in doubt, don't kill anyone.

Paladin was sure that wasn't just some indenture algorithm weighting his decision matrix; it was his true desire.

I've read about bots who were built autonomous. But I didn't realize you were …" "Out in the world, being autonomous?" Med laughed. "Yeah." Jack laughed with her. "Robotics isn't really my area. I'm more on the genomics end of things." "Me too," the bot replied.

Every artificially inseminated pig is a blow to the face of Imperialist warmongers.