Quotes About Ethics

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.

I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.

You can be big, and you can be successful, but you cannot abuse your power to stop others from challenging you from being the next big thing in five or ten years.

Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.

My father, in a way, was a mentor in the way he instilled the basic values and ethics in me. My mother was a mentor by showing me an example to say that if women have tenacity, they can achieve whatever they have to.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.

Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.