Quotes About Ethics

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.

Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.

Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.

History is the study of the world's crime

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.