Quotes About Ethics

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

But on the whole, we appear to be more concerned about the sins of society than we are the sins of the saints.

our innate tendency to think our country is always right. We assume that God will bless our side with victory. The Bible does not support such a view. In fact, according to biblical history, God sometimes uses an evil nation to punish another one, then in turn punishes the first nation for its sin.

I believe that human morality, rather than flagrant sin, is the greatest obstacle to the gospel today.

Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!

The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.

Notice, there is a fundamental difference between providing a biological explanation of why we are inclined to accept a given moral principle and showing that we should accept it. If the ultimate explanation is biological, it is far from obvious that such principles truly obligate us to follow them.

Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel.

The obvious question: Was it better to die now or go on living ashamed of the fact that you were still alive? Why wasn't that on the SATs? Compare and constrast.

The cases of Mylan and Wells Fargo are recent examples of an older and common pattern, by which policies of payment for measured performance lead employees to engage in actions that create long-run damage to a firm's reputation.

Any measure used for control is unreliable."10 To put it another way, anything that can be measured and rewarded will be gamed.

Wouldn't it be easier to change people's eyes and hair than to build big furnaces and then catch Jews and Gypsies to burn them?

Men in packs can do terrible things, things they wouldn't have the hate to do alone. It's no excuse, just something you should know.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

The undiscussed truth is that Planned Parenthood still operates in line with these ideas today. Planned Parenthood clinics—and abortion clinics generally—are frequently located in inner city areas where they can prey on poor minority women, and receive public funds for doing so.