Quotes About Ethics

There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.

No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

Sin is not just action. It's life direction.

One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.

All my life I have fought corruption.

...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often those most eager to violate animal life at the first opportunity.

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

No one is pro-abortion.

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.

One cannot have a right to life without the right to defend it with deadly force.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

I will always support legislation which respects and values life.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.