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Quotes About Ethics

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating
~ Sophocles
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.
~ John D Macdonald
'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his own way, and he is only honest who is not discovered
~ Susannah Centlivre
Girls, if a guys taken please don't mess with him, we're not trying to increase the population of cheaters here.
~ Unknown
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community
~ St Thomas Aquinas
Our hamburgers, made from the flesh of chemically impregnated cattle, had been broiled over counterfeit charcoal, placed between slices of artificially flavored cardboard and served to us by recycled juvenile delinquents
~ Unknown
I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.
~ Drew Barrymore
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.
~ David Brenner
Poached eggs are good, poached animals are not.
~ Erma Bombeck
In America we were given freedom, some of us choose to honor that freedom and some of us choose to take advantage of it.
~ Unknown
We all need the freedom to die noble in a life that has been unworthy of us, being subject to sin and emptiness.
~ Sorin Cerin
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.
~ Ayn Rand
Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else's expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice. The members of a society who in all respects are made to do the good thing have no title to praise.
~ Unknown
When I am the weaker, I ask you for my freedom, because that is your principle; but when I am the stronger, I take away your freedom, because that is my principle
~ Unknown
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.
~ John Stuart Mill
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
~ Unknown
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
~ Unknown
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
~ George Santayana
Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to
~ Helen Swaffer
While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all
~ Oscar Wilde
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
~ Pope John Paul II
There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.
~ Charles Kingsley