Quotes about Ethics

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

sin sneaks up on us over time.

The power of self-interest is still present in the believer

We are called to be people of great character so that, when we come in contact with the world, our character influences those around us.