Quotes About Ethics

How are we to avoid those in office becoming deeply corrupt when everything is devoid of meaning?

His last words to Robert Klopstock are 'Kill me, or you are a murderer.

I've written already, the trip could only be made feasible by a lie and of lying I'm afraid, not like a man of honour, but like a pupil.

Omoar?-m?, altfel e?ti un uciga?.

We're only being punished because you reported us. Otherwise nothing would have happened to us, even if they found out what we did. Can that be called justice?

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Ihminen valehtelee mahdollisimman vähän vain valehdellessaan mahdollisimman vähän, ei silloin kun hänellä on siihen vähiten tilaisuuksia.

Evil is whatever distracts

We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

What I seek is simply a public discussion of a public disgrace.

58. Ä°nsan ancak olabildiÄŸince az yalan söylediÄŸinde olabildiÄŸince az yalan söylemiÅŸ olur; yoksa olabildiÄŸince az yalan söyleme f?rsat?n? bulduÄŸunda deÄŸil.

Cellat, günümüzde, soylu bir memur deÄŸildir; kamu iÅŸlevinin pragmatik ruhu ona iyi bir maaÅŸ saÄŸlar. Sonuç olarak, her namuslu memurun içinde niçin bir cellat uyuyor olmas?n? […] Onlar [memurlar] canl? ve dönüÅŸebilen varl?klar? ele al?p onlar? ölü ve en ufak dönüÅŸüme müsait olmayan arÅŸiv sicil kay?tlar? haline getirirler.

51. Trzeba by?o po?rednictwa w??a; z?o mo?e uwie?? cz?owieka, ale nie mo?e zosta? cz?owiekiem.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.

Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban or severely restrict the use of wild animals in circuses. In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting places where captive wild animals perform for our amusement. If the public will not pay to see them, the businesses that profit from keeping animals captive will not be able to continue.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Being on a grand jury felt like attending a series of hangings in a legal Wild West. Hands up for a true bill. Hands up for a dismissal. A show of hands to save a life, or to end it.

Man without conscience is wilder and more dangerous than any beast.

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

We as mountaineers have had a leading role in the destruction of the mountain wilderness environment that we practice our sport in.

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.