Quotes About Ethics

It's every man's business to see justice done.

You may consider me to be a murderer; but I hold that I am just as much an officer of justice as you are.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

He that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Where there is great power, there is great responsibility.

In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death avenged. Especially by government--which can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

I stand morally opposed to killing: war, executions, killing of the old and demented, the killing of children, unborn and born. . . . I believe that all of life is sacred and must be protected, especially in the vulnerable stages at the beginning of life and its end.

CREONTE Quale piaga è peggiore di un cattivo parente?»

CREONTE Come posso sbagliare se obbedisco al mio stesso comando?» «EMONE Perché calpesti ciò che spetta agli dèi.»

Fiindc? nici o n?scocire rea n-a încolÈ›it în sufletul omului mai repede ca banul

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery;

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Of course you did ; the law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies. Yes, Epps, when the law says that it's a liar, and the truth is not in it. Is every thing right because the law allows it ? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?

I had not then learned the measure of "man's inhumanity to man," nor to what limitless extent of wickedness he will go for the love of gain.

Alas! I had not then learned the measure of "man's inhumanity to man," nor to what limitless extent of wickedness he will go for the love of gain.

Reprove thy friend privately: commend him publicly.

Vertraue einem edlen Charakter mehr als einem Eid.

All her life she had striven to do the right thing, but right according to whom?

If it's in the bin, it's public property.

Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?

But they can't just "get rid" of people! Their

The law doesn't always know what it's doing. Humans have a far greater instinct for what's right in life than lawyers do.

he only looks at how hard a person works and what results they get—and not at what a completely horrible cow they are.

The law doesn't always know what it's doing,' he adds for good measure. 'Humans have a far greater instinct for what's right in life than lawyers do.