Quotes About Ethics

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

Wickedness is weakness.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Is sex dirty? Only if it is done right.

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.

The work praises the man.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil.

There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

Two wrongs do not make a right.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

A little thing that don't cost nothing, and it's just the little things that makes a man to be looked up to and liked.

There is no such thing as concealment. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Gratitude is the mother of the virtues.

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

Against abortion? Don't have one.

George W. Bush will protect your unborn fetus then send your grown child to die in war.

Two of the most energetic pro-lifers of all time were Hitler and Stalin — who immediately upon taking power criminalized previously legal abortions. Mussolini, Ceau?escu, and countless other nationalist dictators and tyrants have done likewise. Of course, this is not by itself a pro-choice argument, but it does alert us to the possibility that being against abortion may not always be part of a deep commitment to human life.

And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

Only half the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive.

Every man is the son of his actions.