Quotes About Ethics

If then, merely out of regard to population, it were right that paederasts should be burnt alive, monks ought to be roasted alive over a slow fire. (Offences Against One's Self

I nostri pronipoti troveranno barbara l'usanza di nutrirsi di animali. Nei prossimi anni milioni di persone sceglieranno di mangiare a un gradino più basso della catena alimentare, così da permettere che milioni di altri possano ottenere quanto occorre per sopravvivere. Se ciò succederà, aumenterà il livello di salute globale - nostra, del Sud del mondo, del pianeta.

Obama once reportedly told his aides, "[It] turns out I'm really good at killing people.

Based on his experience, he has come to believe that the drone program amounts to little more than death by unreliable metadata. People get hung up that there's a targeted list of people, he said. It's really like we're targeting a cell phone. We're not going after people – we're going after their phones, in the hopes that the person on the other end of that missile is the bad guy.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

But, though I crave for work, I still like to be fair.  I do not ask for more than my proper share.

We never ought to allow our instincts of justice to degenerate into mere vindictiveness.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.-Jerome K. Jerome

Speak truth, and right will take care of itself.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

From God's point of view it seemed to make more sense if everyone lost the war, since everyone was committing murder.

Good women keep their homes clean, and good neighbors mind their own business, honey

cruelty and hope should never be served together.

Too far, Mrs. Jones! You go too far! You go too far confusing the cause of labor with that of socialism

you broke up two marriages, and faked a young woman's illness, and bribed her to get an abortion—all in the first chapter—

Among the world's evils—fascism, ethnic cleansing, environmental degradation— smoking deserves the most severe curricular attention in my kid's school.

but the very idea scandalized her. "What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he is dead?

Pasqo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

The logic against them could not be more elementary. First, the unborn entity is an actual being, it is alive. If this were not so, there would be no need for an abortion. The very purpose of the abortion is to kill that which is alive. Second, this being is human. What else could it be? Feline? Canine? Bovine? As Congressman Henry Hyde once quipped, "No woman has ever given birth to a Golden Retriever." Human beings give birth to human beings.

I will never compromise on my poorly-thought-out, internally-inconsistent, quasi-irrational principles. That's just how I roll.

expedience could not take precedence over the pursuit of justice.

I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.

A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.

Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.