Quotes About Ethics

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

On Sundays, Presbyterians were not allowed to eat hot food or read the funny papers or travel the shortest journey; parents believed in Hell and believed tiny babies could go there. Baptists were not supposed to know, up until their dying day, how to play cards or dance. And so on.

People, they all have the word goodness on lips a bloody knife between their teeth.

Un médecin consciencieux doit mourir avec le malade s'ils ne peuvent pas guérir ensemble. Le commandant d'un bateau périt avec le bateau, dans les vagues. Il ne lui survit pas.

Når det kommer til stykket, er jeg ikke sikker på om De har moralsk rett til å blande dem i saken. Dessuten tror jeg fremdeles ikke det er noen fare på ferde. Etter min mening er det absurd å gå fra konseptene fordi om noen mennesker har fått lyst til å skifte ham. Det får bli deres egen sak. Det står enhver fritt for.

Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately. It's

Note, too, that fiction writers inevitably catch their central characters in situations involving ambiguities, not contradictories. The marshal in High Noon was being asked to choose not between a good and a bad but between two goods (or two bads, depending upon your angle of view).

While we routinely call for more vaccine testing, and more human trials, the unspoken assumption is that we do not intend our children to be the subjects of those trials.

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

Siate maledetti tutti voi che cercate l'onore attraverso la demagogia. Possiate restarmi ignoti, voi che non esitate a danneggiare i vostri amici pur di dire qualcosa che risulti gradita alla folla.

En ese momento, la sede de la FIFA pasó de ser el hogar del fútbol a convertirse en una tienda delictiva de lavado de dinero.

Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.

Can I interest you in a battery-operated vagina?

If, after all, there is no truth, how could it be true that there is no truth? If there is no absolute morality, how can you condemn the morality of considering my culture better than another? Relativism made no sense, as Shakespeare clearly saw.

Our moral decisions about ourselves can be spiritual. Our moral decisions about other people can only be practical.

There may come a time when even the most peaceful man alive has to fight or else something truly evil will happen

And the truth is, there may come a time when even the most peaceful man alive has to fight or else something truly evil will happen.

I'm a professional journalist. Making up lies to fit the facts - it's what we do.

Future generations would solve the material inequalities in the sex lives of men and women by means of birth control and abortion. Through the miracle of science, a woman can now medicate her body so that men may use it for their pleasure without consequence or attachment. And, should the medication fail, she is free to have doctors kill the child in her womb and drag it out in pieces to be sold for profit and used for medical experimentation.

It is the paradox of virtue knit into the fabric of reality: you will not be free unless you are virtuous; you cannot be virtuous unless you are free.

Morality is not a one not song. It's a harmony of obligations to man and God.

I guess you don't always have to be a nice guy to be a good man.

The advantage of possessing a great empire is not to be able to do the evil that one desires, but to do all the good that one possibly can.

Christian fundamentalism: the doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.