Quotes About Ethics

No se tienen dos corazones, uno para los animales y otro para los humanos. Se tiene un corazón o no se tiene.»

I have not been deaf to truth" and "I have not winked at injustice.

A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one.

Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero.

Pedepsele nu sunt împ?rÈ›ite muritorilor de o guvernan?? ar??goas? sau de un dasc?l despotic; nu, pedeapsa e rezultatul logic, consecin?? inevitabil? a faptei rele.

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

A man who would agree to betray his own conscience for the sake of a mitre, might well also steal and betray.

My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Nations have the government which they deserve, or rather, the government which they have is truly no more than the magnified and public projection of the private morality and mentality of the nation.

Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every action?

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

In advocating nonviolence one reinforces established violence.

Everything is science and everything is philosophy.

We do not have a choice between purity and violence but between different kinds of violence. Inasmuch as we are incarnate beings, violence is our lot.

To abstain from violence toward the violent is to become their accomplice.

The contingency of the future, which accounts for the violent acts of those in power, by the same token deprives these acts of all legitimacy, or equally legitimates the violence of their opponents. The right of the opposition is exactly equal to the right of those in power.

No morality can be established a priori. Insofar as there are only abstract ends, there is no real morality. A moral imperative only emerges in contact with a situation.

It was one thing to invite a married man into your bed – and quite another to invite him to help you with the gardening.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do. - Potter Stewart

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well the suspicious. - Hugo L. Black

Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.

That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.