Quotes About Ethics

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.

The chief engineer was not the only member of the crew who disregarded the safety of the passengers. Of the first eighty people lowered away in lifeboats, seventy-three were crew members.

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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

There are so many today who are given to judging the good bad and the bad good. They act not to right but to cross purpose.

Ein Hurenhaus geriet um Mitternacht in Brand. Schnell sprang, zum Löschen oder Retten, Ein Dutzend Mönche von den Betten. Wo waren die? Sie waren – – bei der Hand. Ein Hurenhaus geriet in Brand.

Vedete, così la penso io: se al bene che vorrei fare si avvicina troppo un grande male, allora preferisco non fare affatto il bene. Perché il male noi sappiamo benissimo qual è, il bene molto meno.»

Look on yourself as a citizen in a kingdom of persons, he advised. Act always as if the maxim of your action could become a universal law, always treating mankind, as much in your own person as in that of another, as an end, never as a means.3

In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

Petrie. I stood up for a principle I believe in. If the whole of America has to die for that principle, then I still believe it's worth it.' 'Even if the principle kills the very people it's supposed to protect?' Kenneth Garunisch turned away. 'Principles are everything, Dr. Petrie. Without principles, we cease to be living beings.

Going from the pursuit of perfection in all things to ultimate depravity isn't a journey anybody makes in one step, it's a series of small ones – each one justifiable in its own isolated way. But after you've taken a hundred of those small steps, you're a long way from who you were at the start.

If there is an injustice or a barbarity possible, I might have been sure the law of England would make haste to perpetrate it.

When the great scorer comes to write against your name, he marks not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

When the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name—He marks—not that you won or lost—but how you played the game.

For when the One Great Scorer comes To mark against your name, He writes - not that you won or lost - But HOW you played the Game. "Alumnus Football

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.

Always endeavor to really be what you would wish to appear.

The excess of virtue is a vice.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours.

The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God… then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) - the standard of self-law or autonomy. And when autonomous laws come to govern a commonwealth, the sword is certainly wielded in vain, for it represents simply the brute force of some men's will against the will of other men.

Equal in law is not equal in nature.