Quotes About Ethics

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.

The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.

I have long been a supporter of a free and independent press and I always will be. But with freedom comes responsibility.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

People make filthy things with the freedom they regained.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.

Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

With freedom comes responsibility

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

Homo-voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.