Quotes About Ethics

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me.

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom 'good maxims' have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

Marketers use big data profiling to predict who is about to get pregnant, who is likely to buy a new car, and who is about to change sexual orientations. That's how they know what ads to send to whom. The NSA, meanwhile, wants to know who is likely to commit an act of terrorism - and for this, they need us.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

I like characters who are changed, often for the better, by the dark nature of their experiences. I also can become engaged by a character for whom I wish to see justice done, one way or the other. In general, I require a book to have some sort of moral center.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you're going to take the resource.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.