Quotes About Ethics

When the people who were responsible found out what had happened to Chad and Bobby, they shrugged it off by saying that's what the deserved for harvesting lobsters…yeah, a five-year-old really deserved being blown to pieces over seafood. I hate extremists with a passion. They get so wrapped up in their cause that they think nothing of killing anyone who doesn't agree with them. (Syd)

Value isn't calculated by a person's net worth or income. It's calculated by integrity and decency.

It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world.

I would assume that everyone has an experience in their life where they knew something wasn't cool, but even if they sort of removed themselves from it, they didn't totally stop it and become a hero.

Smiling, sincere, incorruptible - His body disciplined and limber. A man who had become what he could, And was what he was- Ready at any moment to gather everything Into one simple sacrifice.

If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.

Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.

You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.

It's worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall Street and be a hero

Bush and his commanders in the war on terrorism are willing to waste non-terrorists to kill terrorists. Right or wrong, that is not caring about the dignity of every life.

Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life.

When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.

Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?

We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.

Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one.

Life is moral responsibility.

Early in my life I had made a pact with myself. I would never eat anything that moved when I cooked it, excited the dog, or inflated upon impact with my teeth.

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.