Quotes About Ethics

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children.

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

But I revere women and I think it unsportsmanlike to kill children…

No one under the age of eighteen needs a cell phone unless they're a surgeon, a drug dealer, or a prostitute.

Do you think treachery begins in the deed, my friend?

Greedy corporations sought profits above all else and a corrupt Senate did nothing to stop them

If good people won't do the hard things, evil people will always win, because evil people will do anything.

Sometimes it's possible for a decision to be right and wrong at the same time

The real world didn't well accommodate principles.

Whether the undertakings are sensible or laughable makes no difference - as long as everyone gets paid.

There's a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.

How can people be punished when they are innocent?

It is said that he spoke the language of the greased palm, and this language is international.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

As our knowledge of DNA expands, and our expertise in genetic manipulation increases, the concept of humanity may well become redundant.

You can always encourage people to do what you want through subtle or blatant rewards and punishments. But it is still their decision how to act.

Whoever bids other folks to do right, but gives an evil example by acting the opposite way, is like a foolish weaver who weaves quickly with one hand and unravels the cloth just as quickly with the other. — St. Thomas More

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta It is a great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you might live as you wish. — Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God.

We have got ethical in so many places I begin to wish I had not given up geography at school.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

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