Quotes About Ethics

The high road is littered with pot shots.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

Do they believe their cause so just that they are above and beyond the truth?

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.