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Ethics Quotes
"My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up.- Charley Davidson."
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"The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made a peace here that has joined many who would otherwise have been divided. I am the child of his forgiveness."
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"If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take the debt upon himself, and pay it for me. But if I have committed a crime, every circumstance of the case is changed. Moral justice cannot take the innocent for the guilty even if the innocent would offer itself. To suppose justice to do this, is to destroy the principle of its existence, which is the thing itself. It is then no longer justice. It is indiscriminate revenge."
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"Lastly, people seemed to think that morality was the same thing as being politically correct, and it wasn't. Some of the most deeply moral people I knew were least politically correct, because they actually worried about good and evil, not just what they were told was good or bad."
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"You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her."
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"It is incredible that this must be said, but the obvious seems to escape politicized academics, so we must state the obvious: Genocide is deliberate; it is premeditated. There is no genocide without premeditation. The murders are not unfortunate coincidences. This is why it is called "mass MURDER" and not "mass MANSLAUGHTER."
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"Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life."
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"The way you make use of your brain, heart, and body, any consequence out of it, has to be faced by you. God or creator never interferes with your action or its consequence. Everything happens out of the process."
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"Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive reverence for rules."
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"Better a good journalist than a poor assassin."
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"It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone."
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"There's plenty of food, other than non-vegetarian, here, on this earth. So, don't hurt, kill and eat animals to increase your girth."
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"Never ever play with the feelings of others. If you think you have played with the feelings of another and have won, you better think again - you might of won the game but you surely may have lost that person forever."
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"An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance and complexity, composed of far other wheels, and springs, and balances, and counteracting and co-operating powers. Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of excuse for their presumption. They who truly mean well must be fearful of acting ill."
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"You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty."
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"Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist."
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"Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment."
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"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."
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"There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all."
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"It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations."
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"Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans."
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"To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness."
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"Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness."
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"Kindness that turns to bitterness when it is not appreciated was never kindness at all."
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"One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough."
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"Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though."
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"Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage."
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"If you can cull an animal, or kill a human , and sleep well, does not mean you are any more well than a sick animal."
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