Quotes About Ethics

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

Old enough to kill means old enough to die

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

Sometimes you must seem to hurt something in order to do good for it.

I never thought I'd have to give you-a former Sunday School teacher-a lecture on ethics." "Former Sunday School teachers don't go around without their underwear." "You show me where it says that in the Bible.

In case you're not bright enough to figure it out, there's a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

A rubbish word. One he hardly ever used. The word had no moral weight. A person didn't need courage for "nice." "Nice" called for no sacrifice, no strength of character. If only all he'd ever had to do was be nice . . .

But there was something she didn't understand. To him, winning was everything. And he wasn't above cheating. With

Ho abbastanza carattere per cui aggiungere anche la bellezza all'insieme sarebbe pura avidità.

Las vidas de los animales también tienen valor! Tater no pidió que lo encerraran en un circo. No pidió que lo llevaran por todo el país en un remolque maloliente, ni que le ataran para ser exhibido delante de personas ignorantes. Dios no creó a los elefantes para que hicieran equilibrios sobre sus patas. Los creó para que vagaran libres.

We can't just leave the places we don't like. That's a child's way of thinking. Sometimes we have to stay because it's right that we do.

A Christian message or moral cannot redeem a text marred by shoddy workmanship.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

There is always time to make right what is wrong.

Would you agree," he said, "that man's sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible?" "Only if the pleasure produced is equivalent to the diminution of pain." My father crossed his arms. "And only if one man's pleasure is as important as any other's.