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Ethics Quotes
"It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them."
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"Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to himself. "The obligations of normal human kindness " chesed, as the Hebrew has it " that we all owe. But there's a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There's a kind of vanity in goodness.I could hardly believe my ears. "But aren't we supposed to be good?"I'm not sure. Grandfather's voice was heavy. "I do know that we're not good, and there's a lot of truth to the saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions."
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"The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable."
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"I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough."
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"When the truth is dispensed it is for the good of all, always."
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"You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had yet to pay. Couldn't imagine why."Yeah, I was hoping we could work that out.""The interest alone is going to kill you.""What do you charge?""Three hundred eighty-seven percent.""Is that ethical?""It's as ethical as my dating the son of Satan."
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"Virtue can flower only when there is freedom."
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"Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way."
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"Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty."
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"It's one thing to have the respect of your peers in the business. Their opinions are not always verbalized but if you are doing the right thing you don't need validation."
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"Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women with great care and address in order to establish their empire, and secure command to that sex which ought to obey."
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"Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected."
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"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."
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"Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us."
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"If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story."
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"We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress."
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"You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it."
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"Your drawbacks is not just the evil you did but the good you refuse to do."
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"When we know our values, we can easily measure whether or not our actions are in accordance with them. Values are the measuring sticks with which we determine the worthiness of our actions. To be better associated with one's own values is to remove a lot of the needless activities of daily life."
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"And I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all, the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions."
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"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."
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"No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand."
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"I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics."
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"Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong."
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"Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not."
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"There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency-which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours-to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm."
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"Honesty doesn't mean you reveal everything you discern and feel. That is why we have the word discretion..."
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"To Garan's credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire learned positively nothing, thanked her for it specifically. "Best dungeons I ever been in," he said, chewing on a toothpick."Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he had gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers."
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"Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!"
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"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
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"It's not a nice thing to send a penis to a woman. It's disrespectful."
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"In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues."
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"There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things."
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"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
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"Abortions are never seen as a positive thing, as any other operation to remedy a potentially life-ruining condition would."
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"Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun.“
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