Quotes About Ethics

Just because something 'is' doesn't mean that it should be.

In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.

Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.

You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base.

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.

I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.

No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke

Cheaters never prosper. (Because they suck.)

Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.