Quotes About Ethics

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.

A pretty girl can do no wrong.

We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and the other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places. An increasingly pagan and hedonistic people (thank God!), we are learning finally that the forests and mountains and desert canyons are holier than our churches. Therefore let us behave accordingly.

Those who have no sense of posterity or any concern for future generations are the ones who are really dead. I mean, they are dead right now. Walking zombies.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Lake Powell: storage pond, silt trap, evaporation tank and garbage dispose-all, a 180-mile-long incipient sewage lagoon.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

I shall never sacrifice a friend to an ideal. I shall never desert a friend to save an institution. I shall never betray a friend for the sake of the law. Great nations may fall in ruin before I shall sell a friend to preserve them. I pray to the God within me to give me the power to live by this design.

Keep the tourists out," some tourist from Salt Lake City has written. As fellow tourists we heartily agree.

It would be like murder; and where would I set my coffee?

More likely the BLM or the Park Service will bypass our trail with an electrical chair lift for crippled tourists.

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

There is a certain primitive attraction in it," Bondi said, "but what about the future? Are we to spend the rest of our lives shooting animals, chewing skins, hiding out from game wardens and county sheriffs?

I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.

WANG. We live in a time of great change. It is easy to find monsters- and as easy to find heroes. To judge rightly what is good - to choose between good and evil - that is all that is to be human.

Injustice, they say, can only emanate from three causes: want of wisdom to perceive what is just, want of benevolence to desire, want of power to fulfill it; and that each of these three wants is incompatible in the All-Wise, the All-Good, the All-Powerful.

Can any man doubt whether it is better to be a great statesman or a common thief?

However, he initially saw no moral issue with Falkland and dismissed any criticism of the work as faux outrage and contended that he was content to attract readers to his works by any means, including controversy. Leslie George Mitchell states that Bulwer-Lytton, or just Bulwer as he was known at that time, considered his poetry to be his finest work and wished to increase its readership through his novel writing and reputation.