Quotes About Ethics

From its earliest days, America has been an incubator of moral ambition.

A true gentleman, a chivalrous man, is just a bit more savage than most people imagine. a man who is not roused to combat evil is no gentleman.

if you weren't cheating, you weren't trying.

In government, you can always improve your lie.

When your enemies succeed because they aren't constrained by rules, at some point you have to either accept defeat, or tear up the rulebook.

The greatest thing India could do for its people was to keep the playing field as level as possible and work tirelessly to see to it that everyone was following the rules. After that, it was up to the individual to succeed based on their talent and hard work.

His grandmother had brought him up as a good Christian and someone who knew the difference between right and wrong.

While stealing was a death penalty offense in the camps, as a husband and father, Billy Tang had no doubts that there were certain things worth dying for.

Men sneered at vivisection, and yet look at its results today! Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the brain?

There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.

And, too, it made me think of the wonderful power of money! What can it not do when it is properly applied; and what might it do when basely used.

Puede un mago matar a un hombre por arte de magia? —Supongo que un mago podría, pero un caballero, jamás

But though he had no striking vices, his virtues were perhaps almost as hard to define.

Um sistema moral que pune a mulher e isenta o homem de toda a culpa me parece assaz execrável.

My father believed that, in understanding and in knowledge of right and wrong and in many other things, women are men's equals and I am entirely of his opinion.

is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.

You're a damn dog, Adam finally snapped. If you're good enough to fuck someone, be a man enough to take responsibility for the result

Perhaps his next task should be to concoct an eighth deadly sin. Or he could work toward finding even a dozen. The devil knew he'd worn out the original seven.

Business man or not, he had the soul of a thief.

Cotton manufacturers understood that their prosperity was entirely dependent on the labor of slaves and they "dreaded the severity of the revulsion which must sooner, or later arrive.

Yet, Malice never was his Aim; He lash'd the Vice but spar'd the Name. No individual could resent, Where thousands equally were meant. His Satry points at no Defect, But what all Mortals may correct... Verses on the death of Dr Swift

There are some scientists who frown upon such practices, believing that nature should run its course," Jane wrote in an early chapter of The Chimpanzees of Gombe, a scholarly compilation of her first twenty-six years of work. "It seems to me, however, that humans have already interfered to such a major extent, usually in a very negative way . . . with so many animals in so many places that a certain amount of positive interference is desirable.

In all religions, as in all legal systems. people find ways to skirt the rules. We obey the letter of the law without honoring its spirit, and then reassure ourselves of our righteousness.

Through Jodi, I wanted to write about abortion—not as issue but as crucible—for any woman having to make an impossible decision.