Quotes About Ethics

Good is the natural state of things. Evil is the absence of good.

The Catholic thing. They've got you so tight inside you need an enema. No cheating on the wife, no cheating on the taxes, no cheating on the church. And somebody bends the rules a little, your panties get all bunched up.

I don't know what the life force is and don't have any use for religion. I do know that in the war business, the light you have grows a little weaker each time you deal in death.

Drugs and stealing go together like bagels and lox.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

A bad leader: • Will lie or stretch the truth • Puts his own interests first • Promotes himself ahead of his people • Is disrespectful • Won't let me do my job • Doesn't pull his share of the load.

Christians need to grasp the hypocrisy of engaging online in a way that would be wholly intolerable if we were face-to-face with others.

Power mattered. But in the end, for Jimmy, what kind of human beings we aspired to be mattered more. And I am convinced he was absolutely right, especially for our after times.

those who willfully refuse to remember become moral monsters.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.

Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists and engineers of a new age which has the power to destroy civilization unless we learn to live by spiritual laws.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Suppose a boy steals an apple From the tray at the grocery store, And they all begin to call him a thief, The editor, minister, judge, and all the people – «A thief», «a thief», «a thief», wherever he goes. And he can't get work, and he can't get bread Without stealing it, why the boy will steal. It's the way people regard the theft of an apple That makes the boy what he is.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

Tell him, too," she said, "never to pluck flowers, and to think every bush may be a goddess in disguise.

What counted was how you behaved while death let you live, and how you met death when life released you.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.