Quotes About Ethics

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

Each person should see himself as though the entire world is on a delicate balance, and with one deed, he or she can tip the scales.

Nach Wahrheit forschen, Schönes lieben, Gutes wollen, das Beste tun. Das ist die Bestimmung des Menschen.

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Today the greatest means, the greatest destroyer of peace, is abortion…. Because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you kill me?

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me There is nothing between.

A Three pronged test for any belief: Can it be verified by the sights and senses of common people? How is it to be applied? Will it benefit the greatest number? from Against Fate

Journalism is the most respected activity in the world. It is the profession everyone needs, and arguing against us is a risk

Your soul mate may be in a relationship, so it's your responsibility to ruin it.

If in this present age we were to go back to the old time of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," there would be very few hon. gentlemen in this House who would not, metaphorically speaking, be blind and toothless.

Seek to perform your duties to your highest ability, this way your actions will be blameless.

Take the fare from him who is wealthy, And let pass him who is poor.

Don't make yourself a ferry on the river, And then strain to seek its fare; Take the fare from him who is wealthy, And let pass him who is poor.

Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.

Even when I knew people were cheating me, what was important was how I behaved, because I have to answer to God. I can't be responsible for other people's actions: They will have to answer to God themselves

The one who commits aggression and tyranny, and the one who helps him upon it, and the one who is pleased over it - all are party and participants in it.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

The highest stage of Man's ethical progress is reached when he becomes absolutely free from fear and grief.

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'