Quotes About Ethics

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.

We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

There is no freedom without justice.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.

Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Freedom is a clear conscience.

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.