Quotes About Ethics

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.

I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother's convenience.

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?

The word good has many meanings.

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.

I don't want to eat anything that has a mother

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep.' To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

I've never hit a woman in my life. Not even my own mother.

Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.

Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.