Quotes About Ethics

In eternally liberal Seattle, it was better for a thief to commit a crime than to have his privacy invaded. "Is

John F. Kennedy that would begin to define him as a person and shape his future career choice. "To whom much is given, much is expected.

Vanpelt was a hack. More often than not, she chose the low-hanging fruit, because she was lazy, not interested in doing any real work to uncover facts. She sought out the sensational stories that would get her face front and center on the six and eleven o'clock newscasts.

Russians had interpreted capitalism to mean: "Steal what you can sell.

William Blackstone stated, 'It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.

than that one innocent suffer. —SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE

Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. —SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, Commentaries on the Laws of England

We live in a society that shuns guilt, hardly knows it. It is drummed into us: "Don't feel guilty." No one wants to pay the price of reconciliation, of atonement, of forgiveness.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

The way we treat certain people in public should sqaure with the way we talk about them in private There should not be double standard.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

A]s important as moral and ethical issues are here, you don't need to rely on altruism to make the case for tackling poverty. It is in everyone's self-interest to reduce the societal consequences of deprivation. Poverty can foster crime and health care problems and in various other ways increase social costs and affect the lives of people who aren't poor.

Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child which carries the heavy burden of genetic disease.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

We have spoken out against inhuman slaughters perpetrated by the Nazis and the Communists. But will we speak out also against the inhuman slaughter in Indonesia, where over 100,000 alleged Communists have been not perpetrators, but victims?

I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.