Quotes About Ethics

A handsome man is good to look at, but a good man will be handsome as well.

If for things good and noble thou wert yearning, If to speak baseness were thy tongue not burning, No load of shame would on thine eyelids weigh; What thou with honour wishest thou wouldst say.

To have beauty is to have only that, but to have goodness is to be beautiful too" As translated by Suzy Q. Groden in Sappho: Poems (1966)

A man who is beautiful is beautiful to see but a good man at once takes on beauty.

Wealth without virtue makes a dangerous neighbor, while their blend holds the pinnacle of happiness.

Contraception is illegal and so is abortion. History makes it clear that human beings are not capable of abstinence. The poor—wait, what did you call them? The underclasses. How do you suggest their numbers be kept to levels you find acceptable?

It was the most difficult problem they faced. A problem without a solution, and repercussions that were all too real: at one extreme another child might be born into a family of six or eight or more, living in a single room without a window or a privy. On the other extreme were the midwives and doctors who might be sent to prison or harassed until nothing remained of their careers. One

Every human creature," he used to say, "has three essential things that must always be in harmony among themselves: a heart, a brain, and a wallet. If these three elements don't work together, problems will come.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn't mean you should?

Just because she's vegan doesn't mean she wouldn't murder someone.

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?

The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present?

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don't call a death murder.

You can't treat people's feelings as thought they were items on a marketplace.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.