Quotes About Ethics

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

Of course civilizations are aggressive, Holmes says, but when they take up arms in order to impose their conception of civility on others, they sacrifice their moral advantage. Organized violence, at bottom, is just another form of oppression.

If behaving as though we had free will or God exists gets us results we want, we will not only come to believe those things; they will be, pragmatically, true.

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

Let's go get the slug gun and shoot some cats

Schop de mensen tot ze een geweten krijgen.

You said every day we make a million little choices, and we should try to make the right ones as much as we can. And you said rarely in life do the big choices present themselves, so when they do, we have to take advantage of the opportunity. We have to do the right thing.

themselves, so when they do, we have to take advantage of the opportunity. We have to do the right thing.

You said every day we make a million little choices, and we should try to make the right ones as much as we can. And you said rarely in life do the big choices present

You said every day we make a million little choices, and we should try to make the right ones as much as we can.

If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

This love of money is the curse of America, and for the sake of it men will sell honor an honesty, till we don't know whom to trust.

Since childhood, a sense of knowing right from wrong had been a steady compass for Raoul Wallenberg. This, more than the gun in his pocket, would be his courage.

Why argue that it was "only words" except to imply that words are trivial, neither serious nor harmful, an argument that at the least elides the issue of what exactly was said and by whom.10

Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.

Abby Hoffman said we should all eat what we kill. That would put an end to war.

But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act. -- Still Life