Quotes About Ethics

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.

Society's future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.