Quotes about Ethics

What's fair ain't necessarily right

I am alarmed by the violence that women do to one another: professional violence, competitive violence, emotional violence. I am alarmed by the willingness of women to enslave other women. I am alarmed by a growing absence of decency on the killing floor of professional women's worlds.

Other than outwitting evil, waging war against the unworthy, there seems to be nothing for the inhabitants of paradise to do.

When the land kills of its own volition we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

wrong is because it is the taking of a life. When you take someone's life, you also take away their right to liberty and their pursuit of happiness. If you take someone's life, you also take their dream, their future, their family, their career, and their children away from them. All other rights are lost when you take away the right to life.

We need an objective standard that isn't tied to our emotions, thoughts, or desires.

the church, like television, is always educating; the only question is, What is it teaching?

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Free people can handle liberty because they have developed character through exercising the restraint dictated by their virtues. They are not the slaves of their physical desires; rather, they train their bodies to behave in order to fulfill the higher desires created by their own virtues.

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.