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Quotes About Ethics

Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal.
~ Steve-O
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.
~ Tucker Carlson
The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.
~ William Rehnquist
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
~ Epictetus
Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.
~ Frederick Osborn
I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. -Albus Dumbledore
~ J. K. Rowling
We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.
~ James Purefoy
Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.
~ Jodi Picoult
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
~ John Ortberg
One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.
~ Aristotle
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.
~ Lee R. Raymond
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.
~ Maya Angelou
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.
~ Michael Pollan
In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.
~ Pete McCloskey
The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time
~ Pope Francis
That's insanity. We must be good all the time.
~ Richard Pryor
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.
~ George Eliot
We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.
~ Grace Napolitano
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
~ Helen Rowland