Quotes About Ethics

I get paid large sums of money to kill children.

A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!

Ich ? : Atheist, allerdings ! : Wie jeder anständige Mensch !

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

a life in which conduct does not fairly well accord with principles is a silly life; and that conduct can only be made to accord with principles by means of daily examination, reflection, and resolution.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Bovendien, hoe kun je tegen de doodstraf zijn en zelfmoord goedkeuren? Als het oordeel van een rechter of een jury verkeerd kan uitvallen, dan is ook jouw oordeel twijfelachtig, misschien onjuist.

Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'

I dunno…maybe everyone has to feel guilty. Everyone! Forever!

Maybe everyone has to feel guilty. Everyone! Forever!

Of course clergymen and other paid teachers and moralists admonished us to be upright and unselfish, and for people with good incomes it was easy to condemn those living on the edge of poverty as inferior, impractical, shiftless, and lacking respect for the social code. It was easy to shout thief at the other fellow when you had no temptation to steal-I mean steal in a petty way. But stealing in a big way was often accepted as good business judgment.

Why care for grammar as long as we are good?

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

The source of morality must be moral.

Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil in us all.

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

Moral arguments beat economic arguments every time, because—whether we are liberal or conservative—we are all moral creatures who are encoded to value compassion and fairness.

In his Summa Theologica, Saint Thomas Aquinas said, "To love is to will the good of the other."10 The modern philosopher Michael Novak refines this further by adding two words: "To love is to will the good of the other as other" (emphasis mine).11 He continues: "Love is not sentimental, nor restful in illusions, but watchful, alert, and ready to follow evidence. It seeks the real as lungs crave air.

From my earliest days, I learned of the evils of objectifying others.

The moral case against objectifying others is fairly straightforward. It starts to get more complicated when the objectifier and the one being objectified are the same person—in other words, with self-objectification, which scholars define as viewing oneself from a third-person perspective that does not consider one's full humanity.

We know in our hearts that the objectification of others is wrong and immoral. But it is easy to forget that we can do it to ourselves as well.

This is a classic weaponization of values. It's not something that good or moral leaders should ever do.