Quotes About Ethics

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage

I'm against redefining marriage historically 5,000 years... because then it'll be re-defined. What if it's between a brother and a sister?

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

[Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His comments are a kind of back-handed compliment, I suppose.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

The coup de grace which ends the patient's life altogether is quite equivalent to the drastic modification in the institution of marriage that would be brought on by same-gender marriage.

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.

The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race.

(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.

A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.

The use of animals in medical research remains absolutely essential.

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

I'd probably start charging for medical timeouts. I think we'd all see who really uses them and who doesn't.

Freedom of choice must be brought to bear upon the US Medical practice.