Quotes About Ethics

When we thus rule ourselves, we have the responsibilities of sovereigns, not of subjects. We must never exercise our rights either wickedly or thoughtlessly; we can continue to preserve them in but one possible way, by making the proper use of them.

There may be honest differences of opinion as to many government policies; but surely there can be no such differences as to the need of unflinching perseverance in the war against successful dishonesty.

entirely unprincipled, with the same idea of Public Life and Civil Service that a vulture has of a dead sheep.

Was a glimpse of his cock worth a Mercedes?

This isn't a banana republic. You can't pull strings in America, pay off an official, lean on your cousin. It's not like France or Spain – those banana republics.

Charles used to say, "If God had meant boys to be fucked, he would have put a hole in their ass.

He was a good boy and 'projected' goodness – which later would be the downfall of many a person.

That's the trouble with all you liberals: you think that people ought to be kept alive just because they happen to exist.

Death-bed promises should be broken as lightly as they are seriously made. -The Gay Old Dog

Money interests fix the punishment for crime in this country [...] consequently there is no moral justice.

the fundamental maxim of Artistotle, that true virtue is placed at an equal distance between the opposite vices.

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference of age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

And Star Trek is not an action TV series. It's about a lot more than that

Corporations must serve the people, Americans thought.

Washington resorted to this procedure during the 1780s, with the healthy teeth coming from his slaves, who received thirteen shillings per tooth, or about one-third of what Le Moyer typically paid on the free market.

Science fiction is full of stories about harvesting humans and clones for their parts.

Sartre, Kierkegaard, Heidegger: cool guys, smart, lotta meat between the ears on those fellas, and certainly trying to define who we are in the world or the universe is a noble undertaking. But isn't it somewhat as legitimate to try to define the reason why people do the horrible things they do? It's a fascinating query for me. It's a kick. Hence, my plight. I write horror.

I continue to live by many of the rules I learned running a business for nearly forty years, advice dispensed by my mother, Jewell Spencer Lewis Clarke: 1) Be a proud black man; 2) Take care of family; 3) Get a good education; and 4) Always try to do the right thing.

It ain't right, Celeste said. It just ain't right to go and do what they bought you for. Why make it easy?

It's always a good rule in life to be as honest with people as you can, but never tell them where the money is.

Doesn't private vice make a man unworthy of public office?" And now kindly Mrs. Albion looked at Mercy with genuine astonishment. "Well," she laughed, "if it did, there'd be no one to govern the land.

Que un hombre soltero de su clase tuviera una amante se podía tolerar, pero las mujeres debían regirse por unas normas mucho más severas.

Still others worry that news organizations may pull their punches when reporting about the activities of their corporate parents or partners. Will ABC News go easy on problems at Disney, for example, which owns ABC?