Quotes about Ethics
The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.
- Nelson Mandela
In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.
- George Weigel
On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.
- Jimmy Carter
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
- Napoleon Hill
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.
- Thomas Jefferson
But it's a crime! It's a crime against the nation. Don't you know that?" "No." "It's against the law!" "Yes.
- Ayn Rand
It's as if they'd heard that there are values one is supposed to honor and this is what one does to honor them -- so they went through the motions, like ghosts pulled by some sort of distant echoes from a better age.
- Ayn Rand
We lived by that which we held to be good and punished that which we held to be evil. You live by that which you denounce as evil and punish that which you know to be good.
- Ayn Rand
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." (Atlas Shrugged)
- Ayn Rand
Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality.
- Ayn Rand
there is really only one proper function: the protection of individual rights.
- Ayn Rand
All the codes of ethics they'll try to ram down your throat are just so much paper money put out by swindlers to fleece people of their virtues. The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.
- Ayn Rand