Quotes About Ethics

The faults of the burglar are the qulaities of the financier.

We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

MENDOZA. I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich. TANNER. [promptly] I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. Shake hands.

Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends.

Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it... and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

The real slavery of to-day is slavery to ideals of virtue.

We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment … A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

Különben is: melyÅ'nk tud számot adni arról, hogy mit cselekszik? Ha számot adnánk, nem is cselekednénk.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work.

So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course.

You know what these "God Bless America" people oughta do? They oughta check with that Jesus fellow they're so crazy about. They're always talking about "What would Jesus do?" They don't wanna know so they can do it – they just wanna know so they can tell other people to do it!

I think everyone should treat one another in a Christian manner. I will not, however, be responsible for the consequences.

I think one of the problems in this country is that too many people are screwing things up, committing crimes and then getting on with their lives. What is really needed for public officials who shame themselves is ritual suicide.

The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers. [ Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming, The Westminster Review, 1885. ]

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.