Quotes About Ethics

Debemos ser capaces —algo extremadamente difícil— de decir no sólo sí o no a una determinada realidad y también a las personas amadas, sino que es necesario continuar amándolas incluso condenando sus acciones y continuar condenando sus acciones aunque sin dejar de amarlas.

I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model. I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means

noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good. So

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

if Richard Nixon is not sincere, he is the most dangerous man in America.

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.

It's easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of the time.

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of "just this once.

I will omit but I will not distort.

I told the good Father that if he and I were going in the future to some wonderful Elysian Field and the animals were not going to go anywhere, that was all the more reason to give them a little better shake in the one life they did have.

The New England conscience, I have often said, does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just stops you from enjoying it.

The people that set one animal against another haven't the guts to be bullies themselves. They're just secondhand cowards.

Here is what I know about homosexuality: That it is okay. That it is a sin if done wrong. That it is a better sin if done right

Man was engaged in a mad scramble for power and knowledge, but nowhere is there any hint of what he meant to do with it once he had attained it. He

There are certain segments of society that will never lend an ear to a new idea. They squat in a certain place and will not budge from it. They will find many reasons to maintain a way of life that is comfortable to them. They'll cling to old religions; they'll fasten with the grip of death on ethics that were dead, without their knowing it, centuries before; they will embrace a logic that can be blown over with a breath, still claiming it is sacrosanct.

You got the firing squad?" "No, that's inhuman—those guys can miss and they gutshoot you. You hang a man, that knot can slip and he can strangle. Electric chair, he sizzles, been known to catch fire. Gas chamber, he pukes and yells. Texas is more modern. Here we drug a man, then inject cyanide into a vein. They say it doesn't hurt. No one's ever come back to say yea or nay." Pedro

You know the story of the Harvard graduate comes to Texas a while back and says to his rancher uncle, 'Uncle Will, how come you can get heavier punishment here for stealing a cow than for killing a man?' Uncle Will says, 'Look out the window. See those cows out to pasture? See any of them look like they need stealing?' " Warren

Go out and fight so life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

Richard Stallman, a free-lance computer programmer, loudly proclaimed that information should be free.

When trees are treated as a commodity, cutting them down is good for business. When people are a commodity, enslaving them, exploiting them and underpaying them is good for business. When everything is a commodity, the landscape grows barren, and the earth turns to dust.

Liars are the acid that eats at the foundations of public life and democracy.

The world only stays in balance when good people do what's right.

Advocacy is not adherence or principle if it knows no law.