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Quotes About Ethics

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.
~ David Rolf
Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
~ Dick Cavett
You can't be a part-time man of principle.
~ John Amaechi
Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.
~ Lawrence Tierney
Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Are you going to show integrity only when someone is watching you - or are you going to show it all the time?
~ Mike Krzyzewski
I quit Wall Street and decided that it was time to talk more about what was going on inside it, as it had changed. It had become far more sinister and far more dangerous.
~ Nomi Prins
We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.
~ R. C. Sproul
I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.
~ Rod Coronado
He just got his neck broke one time, I'm not tryna break his neck again, that's not what I fight for. I fight to have fun, not to hurt nobody.
~ Roy Jones Jr.
He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.
~ Saint Basil
The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time.
~ Salil Shetty
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
~ Seneca the Younger
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
~ Seneca the Younger
There is a time when even justice brings harm.
~ Sophocles
I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs whether banned or unbanned, on or off the list, at any time. In fact, I underwent hundreds of tests during my career and all were negative.
~ Stephen Roche
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
~ W. S. Gilbert
There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.
~ Edward Alsworth Ross
An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.
~ Ernest L. Boyer
In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite
~ Flannery O'Connor
Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.
~ George Monbiot
Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.
~ George Will
Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.
~ H. G. Wells
Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble
~ Harry S. Truman