Quotes About Ethics

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?

Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.

Every man also has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Where moderation is a fault indifference is a crime.

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

If a man seeks to drink enough to blind his conscience, tis acquavit or nothing.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

I am most willing to answer all questions about myself… But… I am not willing, now or in the future, to bring bad trouble to people who, in my past association with them, were completely innocent of any talk or any action that was disloyal or subversive.

I had never seen more clearly how streets like these were made for and by amoral cowards, men who made money in rubber or sugar or copper or steel in remote places then returned here where no one questioned their practices, their treatment of others, their greed.

Surely it is more civilized to kill one man every few months, hold up his head for all to behold, say his name, and return home for a feast than to slaughter nameless millions.

He said surely it is more civilized to kill one man every few months, hold up his head for all to behold, say his name, and return home for a feast than to slaughter nameless millions.

Anthropological contribution, they called it in the OSS. A generous epithet for scientific prostitution.

Is the good scientist allowed artistic license?

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex -- what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.

So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here's the deal: If we are going to pay for you to have sex, we want something for it, and I'll tell you what it is -- we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.

You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun.

What seems right isn't always right, though, is it?