Quotes About Ethics

I will not campaign for any party.

An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

My main argument is that environmental destruction comes when people externalise their costs and pass them on to future generations. That is obviously something that large enterprises do and they become large by doing it.

On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids.

In our time, there are still many, like those in the Good Samaritan story, who being of the religious classes in that time, purposely crossed to the other side of the road, and passed by the injured and bleeding.

I passed up a lot of work 'cause a lot of movies that may be out there right now I passed em up because there may have been a lot of cussin' in 'em.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

Congress should live by the same laws it passes on to the rest of the nation.

Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.

Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

You should be allowed to do whatever you want with your own person and property, as long as you don't physically harm the person or property of a nonconsenting other.

He knew their type: fatherless gangbangers raised on the streets where morality essentially boiled down to: if it feels good do it, and if someone gets hurt in the process of me getting mine, well that's just their too bad.

And if there is a devil,/ Then there must be a god.

I am interested in justice, not the law. There is an unfortunate difference.

Rather than medical killing being subsumed to war, the war itself was subsumed to the vast biomedical vision of which "euthanasia" was a part.

a precept that it is a Divine Commandment to obey Germans

Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.

One is bound to one's wife, but has a bond to one's mistress.

Fundamental to Jimmy's style was the presumption that the border between legal and illegal was a question of convenience rather than morality. The unforgivable offense was to be boring or colorless...