Quotes About Ethics

If I can't love Hitler, I can't love at all.

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.

By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.

We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't 'love' animals.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

I love the idea of rectitude.

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity

I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

If I decide to run for office, I will release my tax returns. Absolutely. I would love to do that.

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

Ti dà fastidio se fumo?" Non rispondo perché non avrebbe importanza. Non puoi permettere che il tuo cane caghi sul marciapiede, ma è perfettamente accettabile soffiare sostanze cancerogene giù per la gola deglia altri. A un certo punto i fumatori si sono autoesentati dalle regole del contratto sociale.

Gradually, the unthinkable becomes tolerable, then acceptable, then legal, then praised.

You should never think you're too good to do a job. And I think you should be like that in everything you do. 'Be a forever new guy' is what I try to emulate, and I don't mean as in you shouldn't step up to the role and be a leader and delegate appropriately, but never think that you are above taking out the trash or that you're above not respecting the secretary or the lowest junior enlisted.

You cannot maintain trust in yourself if you lie. You cannot maintain trust in yourself, likewise, if you act in a manner that would require a lie if it was discovered.