Quotes About Ethics

Religious institutions then become a kind of market for comfort, tranquility, spirituality, and ethical reflection, and we "religion consumers" shop in that market until we find what we like.

Useful thing a warrant. Murder and theft change their names if you have one.

Men are moral beings in their untrammelled nature. If constraint and coercion can once be removed they will be happy and if they are happy they will also be good...

Justice is a mighty fine thing.

Philosophers talked a lot about how people should act toward one another, as members of a family, in relationships with friends and neighbors, as citizens of a city. Good behavior was part of being a worthwhile human being and a responsible citizen. But it generally was not a part of religious activities.

if the ends are sufficiently important to require lies instead of the truth.

the truth that people should prefer to suffer injustice than commit it, that they should actually be good instead of simply seeming to be.

You may think God is justified in his anger. But having infants dashed to pieces and pregnant mothers ripped open?

Stoics believed that Logos—reason—was a divine element that infused all of existence

law of retaliation, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," is "interwoven with injustice," since, as Ptolemy points out, "the one who is second to act unjustly still acts unjustly, differing only in the relative order in which he acts, and committing the very same act

because it intends to lead readers astray. But in another sense plagiarism can be seen as the flip side of forgery. Forgers write their own words and claim they are the words of another; plagiarists take the words of another and claim they are their own.

5 Do not be of two minds whether this should happen or not. Do not take the Lord's name for a futile purpose. Love your neighbor more than yourself. Do not abort a fetus or kill a child that is already born. Do not not remove your hand from your son or daughter, but from their youth teach them the reverential fear of God.

Often their false teachings are said to be matched by their promiscuous lives.

There was a scant role for ethics in the paganism. It is not that ancient people were less ethical than people today; it is that ethics had little to do with religion. If it had a "location" in ancient life, it was in philosophy.

When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

Law enforcement: a case of good men doing bad chores.

Bad people need to pay a price. And the price should be high. ~Billy Summers

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

Most people are fitted with Lead Boots when they are just little kids and have to wear them all their lives. These Lead Boots are called A CONSCIENCE. I have none, so I can soar high above the heads of the Normal Crowd.

I discovered something that night that most people never have to learn: murder is sin, murder is damnation (surely of one's own mind and spirit, even if the atheists are right and there is no afterlife), but murder is also work.

Greed in a good cause is still greed.

And always let your conscience be your guide." —Blue Fairy

I was just following orders. The people elected me. But who elected the people?

My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." In