Quotes About Ethics

Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

It's what you do that makes your soul.

In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman's right to choose. That is it, plain and simple. Guess what. We are not going to be big brother or sister, as the case may be. We are going to allow a woman, her doctor, and her God to make that decision.

No woman should have as her life's mate a man who has mated with half the females in England, who brings home diseases and litters the countryside with his butter stamps. It's wrong.

Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.

When money and comfort are absent, other more fundamental aspects take on greater importance. Traditions, rules, taboos.

Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.

Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.

Evil was a stupid word. It had the same sort of sense, largely meaningless, amorphous, diffuse, wooly, as applied to "love." Everyone had a vague idea of what it meant but none could precisely have defined it. It seemed, in a way, to imply something supernatural.

I think life's too long to do anything that we know is wrong before we begin.

For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin

Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." This in essence was to be the Burke thesis: that principle does not have to be demonstrated when the demonstration is inexpedient.

Doctors were admired, lawyers universally hated and mistrusted.

His solution, beautiful and unattainable, was philosopher-kings.

insistent principle that the life of the spirit and of the afterworld was superior to the here and now, to material life on earth,

The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.

It is a peculiar habit of Christianity to conceive the most compassionate and forgiving divinities and use them to sponsor atrocity.

We must put aside all commonplaces as to the responsibility of the aggressor.… Success alone justifies war.

Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher

Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done.

Honor wears different coats to different eyes,