Quotes About Ethics

I also feel that if you were evil, then next time around you would be very good.

I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.

'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.

It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Morality, too, is a question of time.

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate.

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

I wish I could be the guy who did the right thing at every time but unfortunately, that's not the case.

Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is.

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

Next time round Hitler will be a machine.

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing.

No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.