Quotes About Ethics

You can criticize all matters if you qualify and deserve, and you are clean-handed yourself.

You cannot enter someone's life with your lies and tricks and stay trying through the wrong ways. As a result, your success is also the defeat.

Your conversation and attitude confirm your character and life in the context of both bad and good.

La justice n'est qu'une question de point de vue.

Justice is based on values. And those change every generation.

Tingkah lakumu sampai sekarang ini tidak lebih dari keberanian binatang, jenis keberanian yang tidak menghargai nilai-nilai kemanusiaan dan kehidupan. Itu bukan jenis keberanian yang menciptakan soerang samurai.

It's possible to possess great integrity and be wrong. To do the wrong thing for the right reasons. Integrity is—it's about being true to what you believe is true and good.

I still remember a dying seal looking at me in mute appeal as if to say, "You people are supposed to protect us. You are the trustees of our world. Why aren't you doing your job?

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?

Whatever the times, suffering eventually touches every life. How we live with it, and help others to, is one of the great creative and ethical opportunities for HSPs.

It was about getting what he wanted, and if he had to do business with an evil person like Mugabe, then so be it, as long as he got his part off the deal.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

Most people will be surprised (and horrified) to know that the epigraph for this chapter was taken from a quote found in a 1960 CIA study on brainwashing. The full quote is: "We know now that men can be made to do exactly anything.…It's all a question of finding the right means. If only we take enough trouble and go sufficiently slowly, we can make him kill his aged parents and eat them in a stew."1

Men fought and died, each with his own reasons, and only the gods, if gods there were, might be able to sort through the carnage. Right and wrong were shifting targets, relying heavily on where one stood. The only constant a man could truly hope to find, the only integrity, was that which he created for himself by matching deeds to words—be they kind, cruel, or something in between.

When she got pregnant—he refused to wear a condom, perhaps for religious reasons—he sent her money for an abortion

Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal.