Quotes About Ethics

La historia no es un relato de las batallas entre el bien y el mal, sino entre el bien de una persona y el de otra. El mal no es lo contrario del bien. Es como llamamos a la noción del bien que tiene otra persona cuando difiere de la nuestra.

He'd come to Styria looking for honest work. But when the purse runs empty, dishonest work has to do.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse." —Joseph Brodsky What Freedom Looks Like The point of the shovel bit into the ground with the sharp scrape of metal on earth.

Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier.

It is for one's own sake that one does good things.

Now she was happy to be evil, if it meant she could be clean.

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." "It's

But what does it matter? It is not how you die, but how you lived, that counts.

It could give you some tough moments, your word. Could force you into places you didn't want to be, could serve you up puzzles where the right path weren't easy to pick. But it wasn't mean to be easy, it was meant to be right. There were many men always did the easy thing, regardless.

It's what you give out that makes a man, not what you get back.

When it comes to virtue, after all, appearances are everything.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

Jesus emphasized again and again that character precedes conduct and that morality is a matter of the heart (5:3–48).

There is no such thing as a good police shooting, it's either justified or not. - MSNBC 9/21/16

A sane action is one carried out in a way the wider consequences demand rather than for narrow, selfish reasons or out of habit or approval.

I'm not quite Machiavellian enough to set him up, but if he strays too close to the edge I might give him a nudge.

To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.

The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to do things that would be immoral if an ordinary individual did 'em.

I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there's really no hope for you.

I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now you can find out anything about anyone with the click of a button. There is no privacy and no consideration, and everyone is prying into things that aren't their affair. You can probably check on the intertube and find out what color underwear I have on today.

The first few days, the worst thing he seen Harold do was take a dump and use the pages from one of the camp library books for toilet paper. Renée wined. "It turned out to be The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter . Our only copy. If I had known what he was going to do with it, I would've given him a copy of Atlas Shrugged .