Quotes About Ethics

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Refuse to honour the genius who has abused his gifts.

None of us are either all good or all bad – we're all somewhere in between – but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the dark…

Everybody tells lie sometimes, she replied . Wouldn't be human if you didn't. But mostly I tell the truth. - Alice

Everyone has his price. It's just a case of making an offer that pleases him but doesn't hurt you too much. - Dad

A true knight has a strict code of chivalry by which he lives his life: He cannot refuse a challenge and he always keeps his word. I also have a code of honor, but it is flexible.

I realized Mam was right. It was nothing to do with prophecy. You could see it in Alice's eyes. She'd always be somewhere in between, neither wholly good nor wholly bad. But wasn't that true of all of us? Not one of us was perfect.

Whatever it cost, I had to do what was right. Better oblivion. Better to be nothing than live to experience that.

I also have a code of honor, but it is flexible.

The New York Herald reported that a German soldier had been seen carrying a bagful of ears. Another newspaper accused Germany of melting down the enemy dead to manufacture soap.

Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail, but too big to be held accountable.

it's easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.

You make Gifford Industries sound like some sort of two-bit Mafia-owned New Jersey garbage-hauling company." I thought of a few rejoinders—I'm just wired that way—but I held my tongue.

When someone told Mark Twain that Andrew Carnegie's money was tainted, he said, it sure is—'tain't yours and 'tain't mine.

After all, as the old saw has it, lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Christian situation ethics has only one norm or principle or law...that is binding and unexceptionable, always good and right regardless of the circumstances. That is 'love' -- the agape of the summary commandment to love God and neighbor. Everything else without exception, all laws and rules and principles and ideals and norms, are only contingent, only valid if they happen to serve love in any situation.

probity of your actions should anyone try to put you in a compromising position.

The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself—but you just can't help it.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

A Jewish ethical treatise warns that a man must not express his anger by pounding on a book or by hitting people with it. The angry teacher must not hit the bad student with a book, nor should the student use a book to ward off blows.

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals