Quotes About Ethics

Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

Bartolomé de Las Casas

neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. Albert Einstein

There is a dark side to religious belief systems, which are often fused with ethnic and national identities. In this sense, religion is epiphenomenal—attached to and living off other phenomena. As such, religious belief systems do not always liberate humanity from extraordinary evil. Rather, they are often part of the problem—if not as a primary cause, certainly as something that worsens rather than mitigates conflict.

In his conclusion, Zajonc maintains that he has "not encountered a single instance of massacre that was not preceded by extensive development of moral imperatives.

In the final round of the game, if your company has admitted women to the play, I do not recommend that you vote for your paramour, or for the member of the company who has taken your fancy. In my experience it rarely leads to success; and your fellows will notice and make fun of your noble gesture for weeks.

Make some money but don't let money make you. ~ Tanzanian Proverb

Home affairs are not talked about on the public square. ~ African Proverb

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar.

Isn't the media supposed to keep government responsible?

A slimy lawyer is calling someone else sinister? He who is without sin . . .

I'm a lawyer who is trying to make partner, whose firm looks at how much business I bring in, and taking your case wouldn't be good for my career." "But it might be good for your soul.

A person can be completely right about something but still not have the right to say it.

I wonder where in the world it would be possible to have the ideal, a middle way, a balance between individuality and responsibility to the larger community. Easily named, of course, but I cannot begin to imagine where to achieve it.

Humans were neither all good nor all bad—they were just human and fallible, herself included.

Humans were neither all good nor all bad—they were just human and fallible, herself included. With

that the simplest and easiest of virtues, Kindness, can offer all of us not only a Way through the imbroglio, but a Destination too.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. (U.S. Social Worker, 1860-1935)

In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.

It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that Ethics is but another word for righteousness, that for which many men and women of every generation have hungered and thirsted, and without which life becomes meaningless.

For action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics.

It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that "Ethics" is but another word for "righteousness," that for which many men and women of every generation have hungered and thirsted, and without which life becomes meaningless.