Quotes About Ethics

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.

It's sad when 'Grand Theft Auto' has more consequences for criminal behavior than real life.

If you play a game like 'Grand Theft Auto' you don't go home afterwards and cry because you ran over a couple characters, because you do not give them personhood.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.

I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.

There is a theme to my broadcasting career - I've never done anything just for the money.

The show is not so clean cut in terms of good and bad. That is the theme that runs through the show. Loki is taking down the TVA, but is it the right decision?

There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?

lying created bad karma and that often you were stuck with the lie. She said it was God showing his sense of humor. When

No self-respecting man invades his buddy's territory.

Porque es responsabilidad tuya que tus actos no dañen a nadie.

You don't have to do that, Rev. Really." "I know I don't have to, but it seems only fair. I could either raise your pay to eight twenty-five an hour or offer you lunch. I went with the lunch idea." "You're actually a very nice guy, aren't you?" "Ellie, I'm a man of God. Don't you expect nice?" Then he grinned. "Does God know you're throwing his name around to impress people?

Sometimes, we do things we don't feel good about to survive. It doesn't mean you're a bad person." His sympathy, his assurance had brought her perilously close to tears. But she couldn't cry about this. She had known what she was getting into. No strings.

Há homens nesses tronos, comandante, homens sem escrúpulos, ávidos de poder, que poriam em perigo nações inteiras para satisfazer o seu desejo de supremacia

They stood up for truth and justice not out of an expectation of achievable victory in their lifetimes, but because it was the right thing to do.

In a letter to soldiers in 1798, John Adams, a Founding Father and practicing Unitarian, remarked: We had no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.