Quotes About Ethics

bought into Milton Friedman's 1970 New York Times essay "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.

sinful motive often hides itself under the mask of reverence for another virtue.")

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.

One of the great pillars of bad journalism is the made up storyline of "Let's you and him fight" - dreaming up conflicts and story arcs where none exists. http://qr.ae/jpY6b

it was said those who supped with the devil should have a long spoon.

They hang people for murder, and while I didn't exactly like Mummy, she was my mother after all. Though do they hang Viscountesses?

We, and Plato, meant nothing but the best for them! And when I say the best I mean it literally; what we wanted for them was nothing but excellence, virtue, arete. They say you can't want that for somebody else, they have to want it for themselves. Well, perhaps they have a point. But Plato wrote that seeking to increase someone else's excellence is the best form of love.

There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.

Morally, magic is just indefensible.

It's nonsense for it to be illegal," Patty said briskly. "It may be immoral and unclean because it's outside marriage, but it shouldn't be illegal. That's nonsense.

I believe that Plato was correct in saying that our souls long for the Good, and that nobody chooses evil for themselves while recognizing that it is evil, though some may do it in ignorance.

Crime, que sei, é fazer traição, ser ladrão de cavalos ou de gado... não cumprir a palavra...

Crime, que sei, é fazer traição, ser ladrão de cavalos ou de gado... não cumprir a palavra..." — "Sempre eu cumpro a palavra dada!" — gritou de lá Zé Bebelo.

Briguei muito mediano, não obrei injustiça nem ruindades nenhumas; nunca disso me reprovam.

If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how?

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Peace might sell, but who's buying?