Quotes About Ethics

There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?

Puzzavo di libri e di onestà.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible. [Cultural Factors in the Cause of Pathological Homicide. Bulletin of Menninger Clinic ]

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. [Explaining rationale for using prominent black leaders to advocate birth control and abortion]

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger

Our job on earth, as I see it, is to hold on through the hard parts and try and be a good person.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.

No, It's not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. Sometimes I suspect that those who are running things might grow addicted to power. Secrecy's essential in wartime, but once in place, will it ever be removed?

At that time, a pregnant woman could not get an abortion in Massachusetts -- but a cat could.

I will choose what enters me, what becomes of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. This is my body. If I give it to you I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.

Superintendent Stanislaus Oates of the Central Investigation Department, New Scotland Yard, was one of those happy people who retain throughout their lives a childlike belief in a sharp dividing line between that which is wrong and that which is right. It is this peculiarity which is common to all the great English policemen and is probably the basis of their reputation both for integrity and for stupidity.

When Uncle Hubert spoke of a fellow human being as poor, he meant to convey that either by accident or intention they had done something wrong.

I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.

I want to do what's right. But how can I, when I am faced with only impossible choices?

While you wait for a grander plan to emerge in your head, a thousand small choices make up your life, none of them honorable.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

you can molest someone without touching them, without even saying anything. Just the inappropriate desire can be harmful.

A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.