Quotes About Ethics

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

There is too much animal courage in society and not 29 sufficient moral courage. Christians

those who do not exist cannot regret their non-existence

The cash that comes from selling your labour is vulgar and unacceptable for a gentleman … for wages are effectively the bonds of slavery.

Is it legitimate to eliminate 'terrorists' outside the due processes of law? How far should civil rights be sacrificed in the interests of homeland security? The Romans never ceased

Trials for extortion and malpractice in the provinces continued, which may equally well be a sign of the persistent flouting of the law as of its proper enforcement. Many kinds of day-to-day exploitation of the provincials were simply taken for granted. The emperor Tiberius summed up the basic ethics of Roman rule rather well when he said, in reaction to some excessive profits turned in from the provinces, 'I want my sheep shorn, not shaven'.

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.

Fairness has its place but not in the big things.

The rule is simple: People with integrity are predisposed to perform; people without integrity are predisposed not to perform. It is best not to get the two confused.

A bad person is a bad person, and a bad person will never make you a good deal. The world is filled with enough good and honest people that doing business with the dishonest ones is pure foolishness.

An open heart didn't mean every man for himself. It meant doing what was best for the greater good. It meant doing in your heart what you knew to be the right thing to do, even if, maybe especially if, it also meant saying good-bye.

Some people are too good to be real; I'm too real to be good.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

I could never love where I could not respect

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and disregard of all the rules.