Quotes About Ethics

Well, shoot, I don't believe in double standards, where men can get away with things that women can't. In God's eyes, there's no double standard.

God, lots of psychopaths walked free, in every culture and in every walk of life.

He had never been involved with the mentally ill before, but he now felt more than ever that there should be strong international laws against them being too good-looking.

This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in the people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. They played around and lied to their spouses. But they recycled their newspapers!

Do you think people can be rehabilitated and forgiven? Sure! Look at Ollie North. Well, he lost that Senate race. He was not sufficiently forgiven. But he got some votes, Jan insisted. Yeah, and now what is he doing? Now he's back promoting a line of fire-retardant pajamas. It's a life!

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

You are asking us to lie, Colonel? I am asking you to omit. Surely, amidst the...the infinite gradations of human venality, that particular sin ranks low. The old man kneaded the folds of his throat. What happened out there belongs out there. The jungle has it; let the jungle keep it...

If man reacts to God's majestic-holiness with a feeling of utter insignificance and awe, his reaction to the ethical holiness reveals itself in a sense of impurity, a consciousness of sin, Isa. 6:5.

Money has no religion except itself.

And science is about facts, and morality is about values. They are not the same thing and they don't grow together. No one can find a value on the slide of a microscope.

That is morality,I make myself imagine that it is personal.

the devilish false idols of nationalism, that specious patriotism of the morally stunted

T? ir mana mor?le. Es piespiežu sevi iedom?ties, ka tas attiecas uz mani person?gi.

The mayor was also the local policeman, which meant that only one man needed to be bribed rather than two... The community was proud that he was their mayor and their policeman even though he had sold his neice to Pedro the Grocer for one hundred and twenty-two words.

Neapg?žami ir mor?les principi, nevis zin?tniski fakti.

the new world, the communo-bourgeois, sermonizing, Tartuffian, automobilistic, alcoholic, gluttonous and cancerous world has only two anxieties: ass and bank account...

It wouldn't be a bad idea if there were something to distinguish good men from bad.

At the root of innumerable wrongs in our civilization is the discrepancy between word, creed and deed. It is the weakness of churches, states, parties, and persons. It gives men and institutions split personalities.

Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man. (said by the author to be a Somali saying)

if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil.

I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast.

Aye, but a hand properly used can be as dangerous as a knife . . . And a man is not lynched for what he does with his hands.

The cause of right is never lost, Leal. I've often thought the biggest damned fool in the world could to down in history as a great man if he would just consistently vote for the greatest good of the greatest number - Kilkenny

There is no greater role for a man to play than to assist in the government of a people, nor anyone lower than he who misuses that power.