Quotes About Ethics

E poi, ti dirò una cosa: l'"onore" è tutta una questione di prospettiva storica.

Non bisogna mai esagerare il male che si può fare agli altri. Meglio lasciare a loro questo piacere.

Non vi è peggior crimine del volersi sostituire alla coscienza altrui.

Only a weak man fails to honor his parents.

El conocimiento es neutral, la tecnología no lo es.

El debate no puede ser sobre si la ciencia es buena o mala, sino más bien al servicio de quién debe estar, aceptando que el conocimiento es patrimonio de la humanidad. El conocimiento obtenido por la ciencia es de un valor ético neutral, pero no así la tecnología, ya que su utilización puede hacerse con fines moralmente acceptables o reprobables.

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

And if there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that everyone has a price. - Ari Shamron

the cardinal rule when it comes to assassinations. It's not important who fires the shot. It's who pays for the bullet.

I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps. SALADIN

Behind every fortune lies a great crime," said Ramirez. "Honoré de Balzac

Everything I did, I did as a matter of conscience.

She was also a gifted liar who had never been saddled with a cumbersome moral compass.

He who lives an immoral life dies an immoral death - Corsican proverb

All the blackmailers and extortionists I've ever met have impeccable manners. - Julian Isherwood

And we both know the cardinal rule when it comes to assassinations. It's not important who fires the shot. It's who pays for the bullet. - Graham Seymour

it's that everyone has a price.

Computer files are a bit like sin, Excellency. They can be absolved, but they never really go away. - Gabriel Allon

lo que importa no es quien dispara, sino quien paga la bala.

We believe that a career without scandal is not a proper career at all. - Gabriel Allon

Not possible. RhineBank doesn't hire anyone whose conscience wasn't removed at birth.

John Stuart Mill wrote, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

Two legal maxims often helped guide their opinions: salus populi suprema lex est ("the welfare of the people is the supreme law") and sic utere tuo ("so use your right that you injure not the rights of others").