Quotes About Ethics

What has changed in 40 years? It's very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.

The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.

I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Vegans are the ONLY unique people on this planet who think outside of the box. They are the ONLY ones who reject society's norms, and live differently than the aforesaid groups and people.

I prefer Buddhism because it gives three principles in combination, which no other religion does. This is what man wants for a good and happy life. Neither god nor soul can save society.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.