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Quotes About Ethics

There's a fine line between masturbating while you look out a window, and masturbating while you're looking in a window. I'll give you a hint: one of 'em is super illegal.
~ Dave Attell
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
~ Jeremy Bentham
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
~ Quentin Crisp
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
~ George Carlin
Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU!
~ Russell Howard
I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.
~ Tina Fey
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Rohypnol
~ Jimmy Carr
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?
~ C. S. Lewis
Holding back is so close to stealing.
~ Neil Young
You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
~ Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
~ A. P. Herbert
The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work.
~ George Carlin
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.
~ Peter Jennings
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
~ Aristotle
And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
~ Robert E. Sherwood
Justice will prevail!
~ Tsugumi Ohba
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
~ Allen Tucker
Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?
~ Steven Wright
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
~ Mark Twain
Throwing acid is wrong... in some people's eyes.
~ Jimmy Carr
Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it's less wasteful.
~ Bill Watterson
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Clones are people two.
~ Steven Wright