Quotes About Ethics

We cannot expect loyalty to an unjust regime.

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

We cannot forget the need to use the law as a shield, but we must remember other forces of the law.

At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures.

We cannot be a pro-immigrant party only when it is convenient.

We cannot be indifferent to people's life and business.

We cannot blindly pursue the goal of machine intelligence without pondering its consequences.

We cannot have Derby County going the same way as Macclesfield and Bury. That would be a stain on English football. It simply cannot be allowed to happen.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

One is only susceptible to lobbying if they're weak and they trust what an individual tells them without verification.

I wouldn't poke fun at someone if they were weak. I wouldn't bully somebody.

There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly - it's only a question of time.

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent, then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see, there is simply no escape.

In the business arena, the standard rules of morality don't apply. What we're really looking for is efficiency. It doesn't do anyone any good to be nice to the weak. In a certain sense, competition is inefficient.

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.

Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.

Christians do not say that people should be reduced merely to what they can produce or what they can buy - that we should let the weak go under and only the strong survive. No, we say, 'Do to others what you would have them do unto you.'

Elektra isn't a villain and isn't a good girl, but as Frank Miller said, she is one of the villains with a weak streak in them, and that's a failure that I tried to explore.

When they saddle the leading man with violence it makes the characters look weak. If a man is a heroic type he doesn't have to resort to violence. How many successful men in the world have to settle problems with their fists?