Quotes About Ethics

That best and justest fabric of things was of no long continuance, because it wanted that cement which should have kept all together, education.

Character is simply habit long continued.

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.

One of my many weaknesses as a journalist is that I can't ask perfect strangers about the masturbation habits of their ex-spouses, just me being a stuffed shirt again.

People can be very low for self-interest, Man can do many things for self-interest. Poet Md. Hedaetul Islam

Conscience is the voice of the soul.

What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician—these are the people who make money out of prostitution.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible, as the conscious that dwells in the heart of every man.

Greek statesmen, if entrusted with a single talent, though protected by ten checking-clerks, as many seals and twice as many witnesses, yet cannot be induced to keep faith; whereas among the Romans, in their magistracies and embassies, men have the handling of a great amount of money, and yet from pure respect for their oath keep their faith intact.

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person

Married love, therefore, requires of husband and wife the full awareness of their obligations in the matter of responsible parenthood, which today, rightly enough, is much insisted upon, but which at the same time should be rightly understood. Thus, we do well to consider responsible parenthood in the light of its varied legitimate and interrelated aspects.

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

Our species is gifted where it comes to interpreting doctrine so as to justify whatever one wants to do.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals

A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.

I am told that our chroniclers' practice of inventing speeches for great persons whose lives they write is unscholarly.

You're right,' I'd say. 'The planet is grossly overpopulated and we'd better do something about it. Do you want to machine-gun the surplus yourself, or shall we start with you?