Quotes about Ethical Dilemmas
Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?
— John Malkovich
So long as a society remains economically stratified, the challenge of reconciling lifelong monogamy with human nature will be large. Incentives and disincentives (moral and/or legal) may be necessary.
— Robert Wright
Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.
— Frank Herbert
Law—our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law.
— Frank Herbert
The censure of your peers? But what if your peers balked at no obscenity? You could do anything.
— Frank Herbert
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. It is much easier to steal one hundred pounds than to get it by labour or any other way.
— Samuel Johnson
God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.
— Rick Warren
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
— Cicero
Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).
— Richard Baxter
Right is more precious than peace.
— Woodrow Wilson
qualquer pessoa encontra, encarnadas nessa vida, as convicções que lhe são mais importantes lado a lado com aquelas que mais profundamente abomina.
— Elias Canetti