Quotes About Ethics

Freedom, in the abstract, is irresponsibility for your choices. Freedom, in reality, is total responsibility for your choices. Treat freedom with the responsibility and realism it deserves.

Those who deny the reality of evil do so because it proves the reality of good and the reality of good proves an objective morality

Virtue is never its own reward for the narcisisst

Stop outsourcing your morality to governments

There's a fine line between standing behind a principle and hiding behind one.

We can't hire gentlemen to serve as policemen," Williams acknowledged, "for $1.25 a day.

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

Lie is the beginning of man's journey towards corruption.

No freedom at all when we give birth to lie. No freedom at all when we hurt other persons' rights. No freedom at all when the leader listens to gossiping. At last, we cannot walk or work because we're free for nothing.

The most crime is; when a brave person hid to tell the Truth because many people will suffer most.

Your Words value you, and reveal your true character more than your personal name.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

Present-day civilization is suffering from a lack of moral courage. So many people are in the inglorious business of keeping

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

Mrs. de Morgan- How can you stand to be near him now that you know he has taken a life? Veronica- Because, Mrs. de Morgan, I have taken two.

I think people are much the same wherever you go. Some of them good, some of them clever, and some of them with the devil in them.

It isn't kindness to give a thirsty man water," she said. "It is human decency.

It is the best of a bad lot," he admitted. "Would you prefer 'Sodomites'?" "Hardly. That smacks of Evangelicalism, and you know my feelings on forcible religion," I reminded him.

No justice that imperiled the innocent could ever be true, and Beatrice's recklessness spoke volumes as to her rage.

Have you not yet learned that villainy is not written on the face, but the heart?

Let justice be done though the heavens fall.

I am interested in justice, not the law. There is an unfortunate difference.' " He