Quotes About Ethics

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do

I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?

Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.

I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.

Defense counsel is aware she is a juicy pulchritudinous dish—and yet, the witness is being berated for merely avoiding the salacious temptations of her intoxicatingly firm and fervently aromatic flesh! I move to censure, really!! CUNNINGHAM: I withdraw the question.

Any state that justifies and defends the use of torture claims for itself special rights over any other consideration.

Being truthful to a degree worthy of God means so much more than simply not lying. It means we take the time to discern what the truth is.

Temptations are inevitable, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting.

Be honest in everything you do, and insist on honesty from anyone with whom you share a relationship.

17Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.

They said a secretary should not question her boss's personal life and a boss should not question his secretary's personal life. But it was a Christian organization.

The lesson was clear: they should have voted for Clay even if he was a slave owner. That would not have been evil, because a tree was known by the fruit it bore. "If the fruit of electing Mr. Clay would have been to prevent the extension of slavery, could the act of electing have been evil?

Instead of asking "What is the 'right' or 'wrong' thing to do?" the practitioner asks, "What is the wisest and most compassionate thing to do?

Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

I came to know and like some Germans later on. But I hated the enemy then for what they tried to do to Johnnie Cock and what they did to Johnnie Dewar, our squadron leader, later in the battle. He parachuted out, but when we found his body, it was riddled with bullets. Some of our people say what wonderful men the German pilots were personally. But I still feel that men who could shoot boys in parachutes are not people I want to know.14

Sins of omission should be regarded as far more serious than sins of commission,

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.