Quotes About Ethics

We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

I wouldn't touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it! You realize that the job of a hot dog is to use parts of the animal that the Chinese can't figure out how to make into a belt? -timecode 1:11:10

Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

Don't you miss the days when America was just MORALLY bankrupt?

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others. Only in a culture of hyperindividualism would it occur to you to do what you wanted without reference to anyone else—

I said before that the human game we've been playing has no rules and no end, but it does come with two logical imperatives. The first is to keep it going, and the second is to keep it human.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

It is my obligation as a gentleman to protect philosophers.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

Altruism is not a moral or religious ideal, no matter what some people might tell you. It is essential, biological part of who or what we are as a species.

Human life was worth little.

Bill O'Reilly

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

Bill O'Reilly

they respect the private; he is the company

I reported to headquarters: 'You know you're working with a real war criminal?' The answer comes back: 'Yes, we know all about it. But he's still valuable.

Bill O'Reilly

If you want to be a happy man," he will counsel a friend years from now, "just don't ever cheat on your wife." Ronald Reagan and

The world is filled with concern but also with hypocrisy. Hypocrisy on the part of people who see no evil and speak no evil to avoid becoming involved. --- Marcello Pera

To replace this loss of spirituality, millions of Europeans have embraced the secular concept of "relativism." According to this way of thinking, there is no absolute truth, no certain right and wrong. Everything is "relative." What is wrong in my eyes might not be wrong in your eyes. By this logic, even heinous acts can be explained, so they should not - in fact, they cannot - be condemned. The wide acceptance of relativism has rendered Europe weak, confused, and chaotic.

The corrupting aspect of attack journalism is that it is almost always based on anonymous sourcing.

The decision to use force should not be determined by men who's careers depend on the use of force.