Quotes About Ethics

We can never protect the rights by only thinking about our rights. By performing the universal responsibility with a compassionate mind, you can protect your own right and that of others.

Perhaps what's needed now is a bolder form of censure after all, because the Internet is not a universal human right. If people cannot be trusted to treat one another with respect, dignity and consideration, perhaps they deserve to have their online freedoms curtailed.

Business has a responsibility and opportunity to be the driving force for the advancement of universal human rights.

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

Under pressure from a growing movement of people who want their money out of fossil fuels, universities, pension investors and foundations are looking to exclude coal, oil and gas stocks from their portfolios.

We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

Universities are not like supermarkets: their job is to serve the country, not just the customers who happen to walk through their doors.

Liberty University is pro-life and believes that marriage between one man and one woman provides the best environment for children.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

Want to be a well-paid bioethicist, with one, two, or even three university appointments? Just get yourself a two-piece navy polyester suit and follow these three simple rules: (1) Never name names. (2) Screw principles; just follow procedures. (3) Bury the money.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that.

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

I don't know if we will really have a doomsday for human beings, but if we did, to me, it wouldn't be an unjust outcome, given how many species we're taking with us every year.

Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.