Quotes About Ethics

Again: What does it mean when your first act is to break the laws of your new country? What does it mean when you know you are implicitly supported in lawbreaking by that nation's ruling elite? What does it mean when you know your new country doesn't even enforce its own laws? What does it mean when you don't even have to become an American once you join America?

Den nya tron är en etisk kamp från början till slut, dock icke en högljudd och förtviflad, utan en glad och segerrik kamp i det tysta.

One might say that there is an "ethics barrier " a speed above which ethics can no longer exit. After that point the only remaining goal is to survive the immediate moment.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

She did not know that morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

If there's even one person who might be hurt by a decision, you should never make it.

We are all of us both light and dark, do you not find it so, Miss Tremayne? Wanting in our hearts to do right and able to do wrong. And so it's the choices we've made, surely, that make of us what we are.

Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around

The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He's about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? There'd be riots in the streets about the people we're killing. And yet because it's Obama, and he's better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it.

Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith.

The adulterer should not be allowed to marry his whore...

Joe, if people behave well, the truth can't harm them. If they behave badly – correction, if they behave badly and then try to cover that behaviour up, then in my opinion they deserve everything they get.

directorships, and at worst

If you wish to hide your character, do not play golf.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

War, waged from whatever motive, extinguishes the sentiment of reason and justice in the mind.

We have more moral, political and historical wisdom, than we know how to reduce into practice; we

How much longer will man continue to pimp for the gluttony of death, his most insidious, implacable, and eternal foe?

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.