Quotes About Ethics

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?

Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don't have to be good at them to enjoy them.

It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.

Don't crap where you eat

Is it morally permissible to take the money of a Republican union member, for example, and spend it on behalf of a Democrat?

bullshit might help you get to the top, but it won't keep you there.

But clearly, the lesson is that incentives can be a dangerous weapon. A critic of this research might say that the problem is not incentives, but dumb incentives. No doubt, some incentives are dumber than others. But no incentives can ever be smart enough to substitute for people who do the right thing because it's the right thing.

How can you compete, being honor bred, with one who, were it proved he lies, were neither shamed in his own nor his neighbor's eyes?

Wickedness is too common in the world for us to think much of why and wherefore. It is more natural to ask about the rarer thing and wonder why people sometimes do good.

But that sacred hunger we spoke of justifies all.

No latitude makes any difference to what men will do to other men, whether for gain or in the name of justice.

The "religious freedom" promoted by Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin, the Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Religious Right of Ken Ham and Tony Perkins is a fraud and a scam; it is antithetical to true freedom of conscience and belief.

So refusing to say you won't do something is the moral equivalent of doing

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

The word "cult" comes from the Latin phrase cultus deorum, which literally means "the care of the gods." A cultic act is any ritualized practice that is done out of reverence to or worship of the gods. Such activities lay at the heart of pagan religions. Doctrines and ethics did not.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

There are many who fear disgrace, few who fear conscience.

It is not right that any one should be advocate and judge in the same case.

por un cristiano que los indios matasen, habían los cristianos de matar cien indios.

En las cuales (si se permitiesen) han de tornarse a hacer, pues de sí mismas (hechas contra aquellas indianas gentes, pacíficas, humildes y mansas que a nadie ofenden) son inicuas, tiránicas, y por toda ley natural, divina y humana condenadas, detestadas