Quotes About Ethics

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.

When the good Christians of America are some of its biggest racists, one has to consider our moral responsibility to call out those who clearly are not for human flourishing, no matter what ethnicity a person is. Where are you on that scale? I know where I am.

I realize that there's a whole generation of kids out there like me who are totally disregarding the moral values taught to us by our parents.

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.

Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

You can't legislate morality.

Hypocrisy demonstrates how unaccountable one is to conventional morality.

Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

There's no such thing as morality.

I genuinely don't like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality.

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.

Men never get free from morality, only women.

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.

I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.