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Quotes About Ethics

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
~ Oscar Wilde
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
~ Arnold Bennett
Sanders was a friend of chickens.
~ Unknown
Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge.
~ Confucius
When the sun comes up, I have morals again.
~ Elayne Boosler
Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?
~ Emo Philips
Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.
~ Robert Breault
Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
~ Gerald Priestland
Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.
~ William Styron
There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
~ Douglas Coupland
Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm.
~ Frank Dane
There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.
~ Charles Dickens, Hard Times
My job as a comedian is to heighten awareness about locally grown produce, fight factory farming, and promote euthanasia, but in a funny way.
~ Dov Davidoff
You're supposed to eat the cows. They're great big lumbering stupid things - they'd be everywhere if we didn't eat them.
~ Dylan Moran
I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.
~ Josh Billings
Sorry - Americans only buy things that come from suffering. They just enjoy it more when they know someone's getting hurt.
~ Louis C. K.
It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes.
~ Ludivine Sagnier
I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.
~ Maria Shriver
I may be irresponsible but I am a good irresponsible.
~ Nicholas Sparks
If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.
~ Robert Breault
... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.
~ Ronald Reagan
I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.
~ Scott Simon
We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic, " not blind.
~ Glenn Beck