Ethical Conflicts Quotes

'Line Of Duty,' for dramatic purposes, tends to create characters whose corruption is balanced on certain ethical conflicts, whereas the majority of corruption in the real world is simply based on greed.

Where great evils lie on all sides, it is very difficult to follow the best counsel.

One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.

I fully embrace myself as a hypocrite.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

[Donald Trump] has got his own controversies to deal with. The business conflicts are a big one. But he's creating new ones. There's no precedent for it.

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

Anytime you're dealing with moral issues, in a government position, you're dealing with some sticky stuff because everybody's morality is different. So you may be a Christian and say "my morality is based on the Bible." But if it doesn't line up with the way they think it should line up, now you got a problem with them. And then you can say, "I'm more in line with the Bible," but you don't care about the Bible, so they are like 'why are you imposing these difficult rules on me? I don't even believe in that.' So you just have an interesting and sticky situation.

The world’s gravest conflicts are not over ethical principles or disputed values but over disputed facts.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life - it's one of the real ethical dilemmas that we face.