Quotes About Ethics

You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.

Got a lot of sinful idears- but they seem kinda sensible

When any of his girls became pregnant they had the choice of leaving or of being aborted so brutally that a fair proportion died. In spite of this the girls usually chose abortion.

Well, tell me. You see, there's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be. What

Ayn Rand brings the best and the worst animal instinct out in humans. Well, excuse me, I aspire to be further evolved ethically than that. I really believe that Ayn Rand is the Marilyn Monroe of philosophy--all seduction, little substance.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .

Part of being human is being on the verge of disgrace.

What's beauty if it's not, in the end, true? Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty.

Right and wrong aren't dropped from the sky. We. We make them. Against misery. Invariably, Harry, invariably--he grows confident of his ability to negotiate long words--misery follows their disobedience. Not our own, often at first not our own.

If Rabbit knew a way to clone an adult sized vagina, Rabbit would clone it, have sex with it, then clone an arm to the side of that vagina so he could carry it with him everywhere he went like a big, fuzzy key chain.

All these prohibitions old people think up. I think people should be free to do what they want unless it's hurting someone else.

Virtue was no longer sought in temple or market place but in the home—one's own home, and then the homes of one's friends.

I can handle it. I'm no addict, I'm a recreational killer. Yeah Harry says, like Hitler was a recreational killer.

Love has its own ethics, which the deliberating will irrevocably offends.

The Golden Rule remains the best guidance in these matters," said Picard. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Justice has a price. That price is freedom.

but my abortion politics are simple. If you can't love your child, don't have it, because it will grow up and kill me.

With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet!