Quotes About Ethical Dilemmas

Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.

— Harold S. Kushner

Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.

— Britney Spears

However, I don't propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

— Oscar Wilde

Dorian to Harry 'Don't, Harry. The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.

— Oscar Wilde

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, do not accept, as you may lose a friend.

— St. Augustine

We live by the assumption that what's good for us is good for the world. And this is based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what's good for us.

— Wendell Berry

Wrong was easy; gravity helped it. Right is difficult and long. In choosing what is difficult we are free, the mind too making its little flight out from the shadow into the clear in time between work and sleep.

— Wendell Berry

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.

— CS Lewis

This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.

— Damian Lewis

Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.

— George Washington

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

— George Washington

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

— Andy Stanley