Quotes About Ethics

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

The attitude is summed up by a famous scene from the novel Memoir of a Bengal Lancer by Geoffrey Bampfylde, in which the young and naïve titular hero is shocked by Englishmen standing by and not acting while a Hindoo widow is hurled onto her husband's funeral pyre in the practice of suttee.[ 52] His more cynical flinty-eyed Irish sergeant advises him that "To be sure, sor, this would raise a few eyebrows on Hampstead Heath: but you're not on Hampstead Heath any more.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

For this writer, evil was a matter not of behavior, or even choice, but of being.

Honesty, which seems "old-fashioned" to the fast crowd, is the basis of all enduring success, since it brings with it knowledge of the self.

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

I understand why we do that now. It's a help, not a threat. It's something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.

Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.

Wyatt didn't necessarily aim to be a saint in Dodge City, but being less of a sinner could be a more satisfying life. There

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.

Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian.

It's quite confusing and odd when a footballer, instead of playing, is interested in bringing in players who are his friends.

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.

We do not want to sell anything that offends people.

If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.

It is not a crime nor an impeachable offense to engage in inappropriate personal conduct; nor is it a crime to obstruct or conceal an embarrassing relationship.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.