Quotes About Ethics

self-interest is not the same as selfishness.

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

Quinby thinks George W. Bush is evil, to some degree, because he has a penis.

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

Since Roe v. Wade, abortion on demand has become engrained in American society. Not only have we killed at least fifty five million Americans in the womb, and emerging from the womb (not including under-reported abortion estimates), we also now kill over 90% of all Down Syndrome babies, solely because of their disability.

A nation's views of moral conduct will show up in its laws.

Those who may be troubled by that thought may think about what our country's willing slaughter of fifty five million innocent babies must do to their Creator.

Do the math. America allows about one million two hundred thousand abortions per year. According to the Guttmacher Institute, the average cost of an abortion in 2001, the last year for which data was provided by aborters, was $468.00, so by now the average cost exceeds $600. Multiply the number of abortions times the costs of an abortion. That exercise will yield a total of 'blood money' every year in America of close to a billion dollars ($1,000,000,000.00).

Multiply over forty million abortions worldwide each year by the years since 1973. Over a billion babies in the world have died, in part, because of America's 'leadership' in promoting abortion globally. What a gruesome legacy. Who else better deserves the title of 'Mother of Abominations'?

The founder of Planned Parenthood openly stated that she favored abortion in order to restrict reproduction by minority races, whom she considered as inferior human beings.

America has been the 'mother' of the promotion and glorification of adultery (leading to divorce), in spite of the Seventh Commandment's prohibition (Exodus 20:14). What other nation can make such a dishonorable claim?

The common mantra of today is that 'we can't legislate morality,' though, of course, every law is a statement of what that nation's people believe to be moral or immoral. A nation's views of moral conduct will show up in its laws.

America also has sinned grievously since 1973 in allowing, by law, the killing of as many as fifty five million American babies in, and emerging from, their mothers' wombs. Does anyone seriously think that this carnage would have been allowed to happen if the Church had arisen with one voice and said 'we will not abide the legalized murder of our children in the womb'?

David Bereit, Founder of Forty Days for Life, points out that any abortion clinic in America should have a sign in its window that reads "THIS ABORTION CLINIC IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE INACTION OF CHRISTIANS IN THIS COMMUNITY.

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.

Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

This kind of thing is happening here in Al-Ahram all the time. It's very difficult to keep your hands clean. There are journalists in this building who have done just that. I know it for a fact. They get apartments. Not exactly as gifts, of course. But take that apartment for half a million: The journalist will 'buy' it for one hundred thousand, then sell it for the market price and make a huge profit.

Fundamentalism only ever deepens public hypocrisy, not public morality.

I am a leader, therefore I lead; I am an executive, therefore I execute; I am a human being, therefore I care.

Coyotes can't expect to keep friends when they eat them all the time.

My idea of being a nice dog stops short of getting murdered for it.