Quotes About Ethics

Is it defeatist or treacherous for a doctor to diagnose a disease correctly?

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record. We have the record in front of us and our course is obvious.

Teg boiled it down to an essence: If only one person followed such guiding principles, this was a better universe.

Zaten vereceÄŸim ÅŸeyleri çalmak m? istiyorsun?

La influencia de la política en el seno de una religión ortodoxa es inevitable. La lucha por el poder impregna el adiestramiento, la educación y la disciplina de una comunidad ortodoxa. Debido a esa presión, los jefes de una comunidad así deben afrontar inevitablemente un claro dilema interior: sucumbir al más completo oportunismo como precio para mantener su poder o arriesgarse al autosacrificio en nombre de la ética ortodoxa.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,' " Paul quoted.

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern.

Y la lealtad es un valioso lujo. Se puede vender, pero no comprar. —

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

Who shall guard the guardians? Who shall see that the guardians commit no offenses?

Yes! See him there, this man who believes he cannot be bought. See him detained there by a million shares of himself sold in dribbles every second of his life! If you took him up now and shook him, he'd rattle inside. Emptied! Sold out! What difference how he dies now?

My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. "Something cannot emerge from nothing," he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be. —FROM "CONVERSATIONS WITH MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those things who come after.

Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.

You see, we often get noncreative leaders, people most interested in preserving their own positions. They flock around centers of power. Such centers attract people who can be corrupted. That is a more descriptive observation than to say simply that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Când sunt mai slab ca voi, v? cer libertatea pentru c? asta corespunde principiilor voastre; când sunt mai puternic ca voi, v? iau libertatea pentru c? asta corespunde principiilor mele.

Law—our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law.

Nothing about religion is simple," she warned.

Ja! Y pensaba que ibas a decirme algo nuevo. Eso ya lo sabemos: «El poder corrompe. El poder absoluto corrompe absolutamente.» —Falso, Dama. Algo más sutil pero mucho más penetrante: El poder atrae a lo corruptible.

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout? -Bene Gesserit Council Proceedings: Archives #XOX232

Thou shalt not disfigure the soul. - The Orange Catholic Bible

must never submit to animals.

Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

The trouble with some kinds of warfare (and be certain the Tyrant knew this, because it is implicit in his lesson) is that they destroy all moral decency in susceptible types. Warfare of these kinds will dump the destroyed survivors back into an innocent population that is incapable of even imagining what such returned soldiers might do. -Teachings of the Golden Path, Bene Gesserit Archives