Quotes About Ethics

It is unfortunate whenever someone tries to bring politics into sport.

Unfortunately, chivalry seems to be on the decline, but let's hope that manners can remain important. I, for one, will certainly be an evangelist with it.

Mr. Speaker, the goal of stem cell research should be to help our fellow human beings. The debate on this issue has, unfortunately, moved into dangerous unethical territory when perfectly moral alternatives exist.

Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to advance someone's own interests, which creates cynicism.

Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.

Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.

Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable.

Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.

Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless and until you have sense of chastity you cannot have dharma.

Conscience is wiser than science.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

if we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives.

Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

Right or wrong. When you stand on a principle..you're never wrong.