Quotes About Ethics

I fear there are many editors and newspapermen who will bear a heavy responsibility for what happens in our country.

A life built on others being denied freedom is not a life I would want. I don't stand with the ranks of the abolitionists, but neither can I support the institution of slavery.

There are times in the writing of history when we must use words we personally abhor.

Gail Pheterson writes in the Prostitution Prism that, "Significantly, those who explicitly provide sex are defined by their activity as 'prostitutes', a stigmatized and/or criminalized status, while those who buy sex are neither defined or branded by engagement in the same activity.

Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété.

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.

Where there are laws, innocence need not tremble.

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.

lazy and content to lead an idle life, he is immoral, because upon him depend hundreds. If he gets riches, hundreds of others will be thereby supported.

We all know about morality, and we all know about duty, but at the same time we find that in different countries the significance of morality varies greatly.

A householder who does not struggle to get wealth is immoral. If

for the householder who struggles to become rich by good means and for good purposes is doing practically the same thing for the attainment of salvation as the anchorite does in his cell when he is praying;

No man to be judged by mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them.

In a crime there is always a perpetrator and a victim. If you look the other way, do not get involved, stay neutral, or remain silent, you will always help the perpetrator and never the victim.

We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well.

If you look the other way, do not get involved, stay neutral, or remain silent, you will always help the perpetrator and never the victim.

We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.

I no longer remember which psychiatrist wrote a dissertation demonstrating that the assassins hadn't lost their moral bearings: they knew how to discern Good and Evil; it was the sense of reality that was missing. In their eyes, the victims did not belong to humankind;

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.

Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted.

Ni? ni resni?no, vse je dovoljeno.