Quotes About Ethics

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.

When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.

We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.

The old law permitted abortion to save one life when two would otherwise die. The new law permits abortion to take one life when two would otherwise live.

When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?... Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices... people are struggling with those profound issues.

When we find unjustified spikes in the prices of long-standing life-saving drugs, we should slap penalties on companies trying to cheat people who need those drugs!

I say no wealth is worth my life.

There have been times in my life where I was asked to do things and I didn't feel comfortable with it.

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

I don't feel I owe my readers details of my family's private life.

If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

There need to be some absolutes in life.

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

I believe in the right to life.

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!

I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, 10 million non-human lives.

In the final analysis, despite our diversity, there is only one type of vegan -- a person who is committed to and practices a reverence and respect for all life.

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.