Quotes About Ethics

Walpole sniffed, "to prostitute his character and authenticate his hypocrisy.

There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the young. This is one of the times when God doesn't seem to make sense. This is the worst that life gets.

Learning to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong

Self-righteousness is without a true bottom.

world run according to the Gospel of Richard Nixon, where good guys were always good no matter what they actually did, bad guys were always and everywhere ontologically evil, and no one will be safe until " 'we' crack down on 'them,' occasionally adopting their tactics.

hubris was a crime in ancient Athens. To humiliate a defeated foe was a crime.

If you'll cheat to win at golf, is it that much further to cheat to win an election? To turn a Congressional vote? To stop an investigation? If you'll lie about every aspect of the game, is it that much further to lie about your taxes, your relationship with Russians, your groping of women? If you're adamant that the poor don't deserve golf, is it that much further to think they don't deserve health care, clean air, safe schools?

Good people do bad things when there are no options.

You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're doing things because they're right, because they live by a moral code.

I don't think it matters if there is a god or not. I've met people who believe in God that are good and that are bad. And I've met people who don't believe in God that are good and that are bad. So, just be good. I'm good. Not cos I think I'll go to heaven but because when I do something bad, I feel bad. And when I do something good, I feel good.

Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals

You can laugh at bad things without being bad people.

If you enjoy seeing an animal terrified or in pain you are a cunt.

A scholar always treads on the path of righteousness and as result becomes successful.

The real happiness of life is in doing 'karma'.

A good person only is worthy of a high position and can become the king of a nation.

If people were to find out that Comic Relief is a front for organ harvesting, drug dealing and global child prostitution, there'd be a hell of a stink. The papers would be all over us. And Cliff must never get found out.

Nature knows no Moral Order. Nature doesn't give a fig for social conventions or ethical questions. And God cannot respond to or repair evil, because He is not there to witness it.

I've often wondered if Morality is an attribute of Reason. Of course, evil is always buttressed by 'reasonable' arguments. Yet, what if True Reason is an attribute of Morality, and True Morality an attribute of Reason?

Historians have long been squeamish about acknowledging that General Washington, like many of the American founders, was a voracious land speculator. Few academics and high school history teachers want to risk their careers by suggesting to their students that the father of their country worked the same day job as Donald Trump.

When the cruelty of what one human could inflict on another stopped bothering them, it would be time to quit

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.