Quotes About Ethics

Mind you, with all this emphasis on the householder now being able to use 'reasonable force' to protect their home, I wouldn't even consider it. I mean, look what that Farmer Tony Martin did to those creepers!

If you can't win with words then show them a good example!

With regards pedophilia I have always looked on it as that … pedophilia. I thought that one religion is no different to the other and I am now truthfully beginning to think that.

Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them?

You can weigh John Brown's body well enough,But how and in what balance weigh John Brown?

I put air quotes around the word ethical. I regretted doing that. Instantly. I think that was what provoked him.

What if I'm not a superhero. What if I'm the bad guy?

The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that out.

Self-interest in Filipino politics was openly celebrated.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

The Bible has been interpreted to justify such evil practices as, for example, slavery, the slaughter of prisoners of war, the sadistic murders of women believed to be witches, capital punishment for hundreds of offenses, polygamy, and cruelty to animals. It has been used to encourage belief in the grossest superstition and to discourage the free teaching of scientific truths. We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.

The Nazis are regarded as animals in human form because they gassed, shot, or burned perhaps as many as six million Jews. Today the people of the United States are quite prepared, if provoked, to actually burn alive hundreds of millions of innocent men and women, young and old. I deliberately put the matter in such blunt terms because it is long past time to do so and because there is apparently no other way to start people thinking of the moral questions raised by nuclear weapons.

To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands -- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

At what point do we admit that the NFL's true economic function is to channel our desire for athletic heroism into an engine of nihilistic greed?

You take a stand because it's the right thing to do, not because it's effective. I

This, of course, is the big dance of capitalism: how to keep morality from gumming up the gears of profit, how to convince people to make bad decisions without seeing them as bad.

Murder's the taking of one man's life by another - war's the other way around.

god's cowardly, it doesn't want to know or take responsibility for what it's doing.

Which comes first: Good or Evil? Usually evil. Good counters.

When you see a good person, think about evaluating that person. When you see a bad person, think about evaluating yourself. —CONFUCIUS

T]he death penalty dehumanizes everyone on both sides of the equation. It dimishes everyone it touches. It is something we just shouldn't do.

I may not have the capacity to love everyone, but I do have the capacity to act as if I do and run my business accordingly." —Agnes Golden

We have to realize what we are. The range of what is human is vast, ranging from the saintly to the monstrous. When we speak of other human beings as if they somehow do not belong to our species, we ignore the reality of our very nature.