Quotes About Ethics

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war and pillage...

Es fer war, I call it murder,— There you hev it, plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that; God hez sed so, plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die, But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Is a stolen copyright a copywrong?

Virgos cannot tolerate lying, cheating, fakeness, or ignorance.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

It is forbidden to tell anything that has no foundation.

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country — and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

Did you read what this writer dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it. This should be a lesson to Presidents to either behave themselves or not to keep a diary.

The difference between a bandit and a patriot is a good press agent.

HYGIENE. Bacteriology made moral...

I dare to be honest, and I fear no labour.

ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. ACADEMY, n. (from academe). A modern school where football is taught.

The teeth form a barrier to check wanton words.

Be kind to everyone on the way up; you'll meet the same people on the way down.

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love is abortion.

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

Abortion is a question of choice.

The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in bringing them forth in our window gardens. So long as their home-life aesthetics have not become ethics, women need not expect husbands, children, or servants to feel happy in the homes of their creation.

I had an attitude about some work, like television sitcoms. It was selling your soul.

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.