Quotes About Ethics

When you try to get something for nothing, you become nothing.

Guns aren't evil people are evil. Once we get rid of evil we can get rid of guns.

One time I got a D on my report card and my mom said What do I have to say about that? and I said Hey, at least I didn't cheat.

You can sell a woman? In cities, it's done all the time, all the time. It's like selling meat.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

As long as you remember that fighting evil doesn't necessarily make you good! Good and evil are each other's enemies, but they are often found close together.

The world was slipping down into Hell, and everyone was helping it on its way. Everyone accepted a little bit of money, and a little bit of blame, and that way they could all walk around with a conscience that was just a little bit off-color. Just a little bit, but add all those bits together ...

I have five questions that I ask people who have power, and I recommend them to the House. If I see someone who is powerful, be it a traffic warden, Rupert Murdoch, the head of a trade union or a Member of Parliament, I ask myself these five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? How can we get rid of you?" That last question is crucial.

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

Humans and animals inhabit the planet together and we have to find a way to take the cruelty out of it.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?

Grantland Rice, the dean of those sportswriters. "When a sportswriter stops making heroes out of athletes," Rice once said, "it's time to get out of the business.

Maybe answers are found not in observing but in doing. Doing the right thing" -Eva Nine

I'm against the death penalty. I believe that it is a mistake to show that killing people is wrong by killing people. However I'm not against the random killing of people who snore.

Navajos did not kill with cold-blooded premeditation. Nor did they kill for profit. To do so violated the scale of values of The People. Beyond meeting simple immediate needs, the Navajo Way placed little worth on property. In fact, being richer than one's clansmen carried with it a social stigma. It was unnatural, and therefore suspicious.

The practice of euthanasia, under some circumstances, is morally required by the two most widely regarded principles that guide medical practice: respect for patient autonomy and promoting patient's best interests. In the Netherlands and Belgium active euthanasia may be carried out within the law.

Let me pose a more general question. What is the cash value of a human life? This question is a disturbing one to ask but, paradoxically, there are situations where avoiding the question may cost lives, and allocating scarce medical resources is one of them.

DNA is now a reality. Reproductive

The four classes are: 1) Good for you, good for other people, 2) Good for you, bad for other people 3) Bad for you, good for other people and 4) Bad for you, bad for other people.