Quotes About Ethics

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.

If a person fights, that's their own choice," Angel says. "But getting two roosters to fight or two dogs like pit bulls to fight, the animals don't have a choice there. They can't decide not to fight.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in religious institutions almost every day of his adult life but never once told a congregation or gathering there for whom to vote.

What "value" is taught when school administrators thumb their noses at the highest court in the land and continue illegal practices?

work by George Grant called Legislating Immorality, which called for the execution of all gay people, but was kind enough to qualify it in a footnote by saying that in our judicial system we would have to give them a trial first.

You're such a cheater. The best wood in your golf bag is your pencil!

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

Nothing is simpler than to kill a man; the difficulties arise in attempting to avoid the consequences.

Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life

Invade a man's privacy and then put the burden on him.

I wouldn't use physical violence even if I could, because one of my romantic ideas is that physical violence is beneath the dignity of a man, and that whatever you get by physical aggression costs more than it is worth.

Well." Wolfe was judicious. "You were not under oath. The police have been lied to informally many times by many people, including me. The right to lie in the service of your own interests is highly valued and frequently exercised.

He lowered the magazine. "Archie. You may remember that I once returned a retainer of forty thousand dollars which a client named Zimmermann had paid me, because he wanted to tell me how to handle his case instead of leaving it to me. Well?" He lifted the magazine. He lowered it again. "Please type the report." He lifted it again.

That's one of the disadvantages of being poor, you don't dare kill anybody.

Nothing is nonsense that is concerned with the vagaries of human conduct.

True, it is bad to stab a man in the back, but when one is in a hurry the niceties must sometimes be overlooked.

Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life. You

No doctor should assume responsibility for the health of one he loves or one he hates.

Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life.

Nothing is quite so uncomfortable as a loose conscience.

Nothing corrupts a man so deeply as writing a book; the myriad temptations are overpowering. I wouldn't presume—

At the dinner table, and with coffee in the office afterwards, Wolfe resumed on the subject he had started at lunch—Voltaire. The big question was, could a man be called great on account of the way he used words, even though he was a toady, a trimmer, a forger, and an intellectual fop.

Because an argument is used hypocritically, it does not necessarily follow that it is untrue.