Quotes about Ethics

The god you worship is the god you deserve.

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?" "Who else will go?

Rise above principal and do what's right.

Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

People have a right to do anything that's not forbidden by law, and there's no law against lying to you.

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as mature and intelligent as you were and who you had to pretend was not? What could you say to him?

He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down.

Ideals are good, but people are sometimes not so good.

Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.

Remember that we cannot judge the moral value of any action by how we feel. Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.