Quotes About Ethics

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

Who would do ill ne'er wants occasion.

Am I to admire a man who injures me in an awkward and mistaken attempt to protect me, and to despise a man who to earn a good income performs for me some great and lasting service?

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Who knows how many potential Olympic medalists have turned away from sports because of youth-league coaches who preach that the purpose of life lies in beating the school on the other side of town, and that it doesn't matter how you play the game, just so you win.

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar.

Lippmann declared that "if what is good, what is right, what is true, is only what the individual 'chooses' to 'invent', then we are outside the traditions of civility.

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

Most of us do not think of ourselves as criminals, but possibly there are things in our daily lives which we regard as our "inheritance" which will move future generations to critical disgust.

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard.

Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.

The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights, filling the kettle, taking the children to school, driving to the shops, we are condemning other people to death. We never chose to do this. We do not see ourselves as killers. We perform these acts without passion or intent.

Si la hipocresía es la distancia que hay entre nuestros principios y nuestro comportamiento, es muy fácil no ser nunca un hipócrita; basta con no tener ningún principio.

The failure to tell a new story has been matched by an equally remarkable omission: the failure to discern and describe the values and principles that might inform our politics.

I believe that informed adults should be allowed to inflict whatever suffering they wish - on themselves. But we are not entitled to harm other people.

Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against "intensive farming," and the harm it does to us and our world. But the problem is not the adjective. It's the noun.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

It is not] the poet's business to use verse as an advanced form of rhetoric, nor to give to political statements the aura of eternal truth.