Quotes About Ethics

There are things we don't do. From this moment forth, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and our ancestors. Let us live to the highest standards, lest we win this war only to find ourselves staring in the mirror at the face of our late enemy.

Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we've yet to win. You'd think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven't actually produced the promised results.

Although leftists are not uniquely guilty of lying, they are uniquely guilty of lying as a conscious strategy.

a quote by David Schippers, a Democrat and the chief investigative counsel for the House Judiciary Committee. Said Schippers for the ages: "The president, then, has lied under oath in a civil deposition, lied under oath in a criminal grand jury. He lied to the people. He lied to his Cabinet. He lied to his top aides. And now he's lied under oath to the Congress of the United States. There's no one left to lie to.

If we take seriously the interdependence of all human rights, and if we take seriously the idea that human rights are about a life of dignity, not mere life, then the restriction of humanitarian intervention to genocide is highly problematic.

The refinement of an individual or a society is measured by the yardstick of how well greed and desires are controlled.

I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.

Yeah, I said, but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing'... Page 100.

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief. I was getting the bug myself.

Life is life, and kind is kind.

I suddenly began to realize that everyone in America is a natural-born thief.

Buddhism wasn't responsible for the insane atrocities of human history

But that don't mean I don't love America, by God, though I hate these damn hunters, all they wanta do is level a gun at a helpless sentient being and murder it, for every sentient being or living creature these actual pricks kill they will be reborn a thousand times to suffer the horrors of samsara and damn good for 'em too." "Hear

none of us realize the importance, nay the sweetness, of admiration; it is one of the dying virtues of character.

You tell me why's a man's blood is any better or any more precious than a dog's blood? It sure ain't to the dog.

And so it came that White Fang learned that the right to punish was something the gods reserved for themselves and denied to the lesser creatures under them.

He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

He who steals my purse steals my right to live, was the reply, old saws to the contrary. For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life.

All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer. You go to Sunday-school to learn what

John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between one's immediate desires and long-learned morality.

Wherever there is an ascendant class, a large portion of the morality emanates from its class interests and its class feelings of superiority.