Quotes about Ethics
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
- Pope John Paul II
I like where we're going with technology and global integration, but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don't like it. This isn't the Hollywood I wanted to be part of.
- Neill Blomkamp
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery
- Steven James
The only people who aren't hypocrites are those whose morals are so twisted, whose consciences are so seared, that they don't believe in any ideals higher than those they actually live out.
- Steven James
Justice doesn't always have clean hands, and we all have dark desires clawing at our wills.
- Steven James
One should not forget that companies play a role in the social fabric of a nation. They are not just there to make a profit.
- Mattia Binotto
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
- Glenn Beck
The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.
- Joe Biden
Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.
- Pope Benedict XVI
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or to the ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin - but it is not of Edward of England that I shall ask pardon.
- William Wallace
In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
- Tony Campolo
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
- Desmond Tutu