Quotes About Ethics

The perception a lot of folks have of the Clintons, even folks who are Democrats, see the Clintons as bending the rules.

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.

I guess people think if you're well-known, it's perfectly fine to say anything you want. I don't know why that is. But it shouldn't be, because everybody has families and lives.

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

I feel like young people, more than anyone in the country, always have their moral compass on perfectly straight.

My mother means the world to me. She is my inspiration and motivating force. She has brought me up perfectly and given me the value and ethics that I still proudly believe in and follow.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

I would never manipulate somebody and put somebody in peril so that I could get rich off of it.

I don't kiss on screen. Period.

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

People should never be permitted to feel comfortable while trampling the rights of others.

No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.