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Quotes About Ethics

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.
~ Jessica Hahn
If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
~ John Donne
The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God.
~ John le Carre
God may have mercy, but we won't.
~ John McCain
Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?
~ John Milton
Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.
~ John of Salisbury
Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.
~ Joseph Alexander Leighton
If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.
~ Joseph McCabe
Justice is useful when money is useless.
~ Plato, The Republic
The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere.
~ George Eliot
I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.
~ Habeeb Akande
If you violate laws of God, you're a sinner.If you violate laws of men, you're a criminal.If you violate your own laws, you're pathetic.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector.
~ C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.
~ Robert W. Cox
Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
If there is no personal God, everything is permissablel, and if God exists, everthing is possible.
~ Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
What does the Lord God requires of us:To love what is good.To do justice.To do what is right.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
We don't live as God intended us to, but we live as the Devil wants us to.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
I wonder when god will get a microchip?
~ Anthony T. Hincks
Why would science ever recognize God that would make [them] accountable for their crimes against [him].
~ Craig Smedley
Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don't even go looking for angels.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.
~ Jose Rizal