Quotes About Ethics

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on [office]," he wrote to a friend, "a rottenness begins in his conduct.

princes are instituted by God not to seek their own gain but the common good of the people.

Meeting his commissariat staff for the first time as Commander in Chief, the Grand Duke said to them, "Gentlemen, no stealing.

He says not to list the patients we save but the ones we don't kill.

There was no doubt what must be done—the law was clear. Written centuries ago, the Lex Caesare decreed that if any woman died while pregnant, the living child was to be immediately cut out of her abdomen. This poor girl, whose name no one knew, was certain to die; but the baby inside her lived and must be given a chance to survive.      Selene was fearful. She had never before performed a Caesarean-law operation.

Destroy the idea of God, and you destroy the idea of moral authority.

Evil eyes look out for occasion, therefore give none.

Justice cannot be exerted in a vacuum where there is neither good nor evil, right nor wrong.

Interference with personal liberty for opinions is immoral, for every man has a right to his own opinions and a right to express them; and interference with the liberty of A is only lawful when A has violated the rights of B, and then one interference must exactly balance the other. When an idea takes the knife like Lady Macbeth, it has on its hands a dye which all the perfumes of Araby cannot efface. It has defied morality, and, as its penalty, morality delivers it over to impotence.

No man or corporation has a right to employ any man without giving him the equivalent of his labor.

There is not a single right to be discovered without a duty from which it springs.

We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.

Even a cricket knows the difference between a man and an angel; For a man looks not at the ground whereon he walks, he crushes many a life; While the passing of an angel leaves all the world a-thrill.

They can vote for every possible war that comes along and still be "pro-life," while a levy that applies only to the vast fortunes left by the richest 1 percent of Americans when a spousal exemption is claimed is the "death tax.

He is as weak as a bent flaxstalk, and to be weak is to be wicked.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

Frederick Catherwood rightly says "The teaching ofthe bible would appear to be that it is not the amount of a man's wealth which matters. What matters is the method by which he acquires it, how he uses it, and his attitude of mind toward it.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

Some people just need killing.

Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.

I have no patience for anyone who enjoys meat but moans about slaughterhouses, who wears cheap clothes but deplores sweatshops, who weeps about climate change from behind the wheel of an SUV or from the window seat of an airplane.

What makes humans special is our need to rationalize our actions.

worship had been divorced from justice, and the fatherless and the widow had become the chief victims

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.