Quotes About Ethics

The 'thin blue line' is nothing more than the no snitching policy found in any other criminal gang.

Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity.

No nation's flag is great or glorious if it flies over the weak and downtrodden, even if they raise and protect it out of misguided allegiance.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Newspapers should have no friends.

Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.

Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.

I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.