Quotes About Ethics

Sin or sacrament, Kevin," she said. "Which is it? Which do you want to be?

Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

The aggressive use of new medical tools went beyond castration. Dr. Marion Sims discovered a condition called "vaginismus," in which a woman felt such pain from intercourse she was unable to bear penetration. He prescribed surgery, but another treatment was to put the woman under anesthesia so her husband was able to have sex with her. Sims described one case in which a physician had to visit the couple two or three times a week to anesthetize the woman before lovemaking.

the reason you give your body is what makes it right or makes it shameful, and only you can decide that.

There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

What power has law where only money rules.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors."   (Jonas Salk)

Nobody has ever seen the God. God can be seen and realized in good works. Blindly following and marketing some brand in the name of God is just a business!

The story can also serve as a philosophy for getting on in society – to teach the morally superior man that each day he should investigate his own personal conduct, or that human life is suffering, or that suffering in life derives from the self. Or the story could be developed into numerous intricate and complex theories. It all depends on how the storyteller tells it.

Aquéste es de los hombres el oficio: tentar el mal, y si es malo el suceso, pedir con humildad perdón del vicio.

Everyone believes in sin, the people who charge their peers with political incorrectness and the people who regard political correctness as the bogey of a little mind. What everyone does not believe in, as nearly as I can tell, is forgiveness.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.

A good newspaper is never quite good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

Sometimes in order to understand what is right, we have to first recognize what is wrong.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man. —GILBERT CHESTERTON

Jefferson belonged to that large class if southerners--including the best of them, nen like Washington and Madison--who knew that slavery was evil, but felt they could not cut back in the evil without cutting the ground out from under them. They knew, as well, that they would lose their influence over other southerners if they went against the system off which they lived.

T]he American fanatic has always suffered moral disorientation at the mere thought of anyone 'getting something for nothing'.

You know how we say in Wisconsin: 'Do right and fear no man; don't write and fear no woman!

Don't take no shit off fools. An' you judge a person by what's in 'em, not how they look. An' you do the right thing. You gotta be one of the good guys, son: 'cause there's way too many of the bad.

As the old saying goes: With great power comes the total fuckin' certainty that you're gonna turn into a cunt.