Quotes About Ethics

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.

As it concerns Clinton coverage, the Times will have a special place in journalism hell.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta

wonderful people are made, not born – that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments.

Sin is a necessary piece of our mental furniture because it reminds us that life is a moral affair.

Plato believed the soul was divided into three parts: reason, spirit, and appetite.

People who are humble about their own nature are moral realists. Moral realists are aware that we are all built from "crooked timber"— from Immanuel Kant's famous line, "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.

Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit into the fabric of the common good.

Each of us is guilty of the good we don't do.

ALTRUISM WAS, from the very start, a problem for the Darwinian theory of evolution, if not something worse than a problem. As a result, Darwinians have always been under a certain temptation to "cut the knot," and deny the very existence of altruism. This

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

Eddie is a man in all that noun means.

Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man

better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.