Quotes About Ethics

The days of chefs who threw tantrums, who bullied and underpaid their workers, were numbered.

force me to have a baby against my will. That's . . . It's barbaric. It's like . . . Handmaid shit.

We die when we refuse to stand up for justice.

Yet we ought to kill someone!' said the gentleman, immediately reverting to his former subject. 'I have been quite out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.

Soldiers, I am sorry to say, steal everything." He thought for a moment and then added, "Or at least ours do." How

Weber warns that "he who seeks the salvation of the soul, his own soul and others, should not seek it along the avenue of politics.

The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.

Principles triumph, they do not compromise.

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces.

What is hateful unto you, do not do unto your neighbor. This is the whole Torah, all the rest is commentary. Now, go and study.

Abraham's readiness to obey God's command shows him to be ethically deficient by later standards, but not by those of his age. True, God had revealed Himself to Abraham, but He had not made known to him the full ethical implications of monotheism. Since other contemporary religious believers sacrificed sons to their gods, God, in essence, was asking Abraham if he was as devoted to his God as the pagan idolaters were to theirs.

Burglars and thieves sometimes complained that they only committed crimes against property, not like muggers and rapists. Muggers and rapists never faulted policemen at all, which caused the choirboys to comment that as a rule muggers and rapists were the most appreciative people they contacted.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

Are you here to kill me quickly with violence? Or slowly with responsibility?

The Ecology Frame focuses on achieving your goals in a way that benefits everybody. It involves acting morally and setting up scenarios where everybody wins."

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.