Quotes About Ethics

From time immemorial, healthy people have held sick people hostage…I believe hostage-holding of the sick is immoral, fundamentally unethical, and needs to be stopped.

If one does not have these five things there is no good in him: intellect, religion, etiquette, shame and good manners.

Honor and dignity of man is only in virtue and piety.

As journalists the first lesson we learnt was not to sit on judgment but raise questions.

Good will and ill will are just two sides of the same card...

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

If your heart isn't in the right place, you're no different from the beasts in the forest.

While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout history. Were I to attend church, I'd be a hypocrite.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Character, simply stated, is doing what you say you're going to do.

Those who set out nobly to be their brother's keeper sometimes end up by becoming his jailer. Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

1) The gospel (the good news about Jesus' death and resurrection) is not merely the power by which dead sinners are raised to new life, it is also the power by which God's people are transformed. The gospel is not merely the starting point from which we move on to ethics; it is the heartbeat of our lives as Christians. That

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

We do whatever we enjoy doing. Whether is happens to be judged good or evil is a matter for others to decide.

Good laws left to the interpretation of evil men are no longer good.

Without temptation what value is virtue?

The press has the power to stimulate people to clean up the environment prevent nuclear proliferation force crooked politicians out of office reduce poverty provide quality health care for all people and even to save the lives of millions of people as it did in Ethiopia in 1984. But instead we are using it to promote sex violence and sensationalism and to line the pockets of already wealthy media moguls.' Dr Carl Jensen founder of Project Censored

If the journalist is secretly the tool of some invisible public relations machine or vested commercial interest it is the public whose interest is betrayed

One more Socially Responsible cheep out of you, doggy, and it's back in the workbag for the rest of the afternoon.

it is technically a Category Two SoulCrime to remove or conceal a Ministry of Pain–assigned famulus from your immediate person.