Quotes About Ethics

I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

How is it that society professes to embrace the value of honesty when so few are found of it?

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.

Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money.