Quotes about Ethics
The basic principle is to do no harm. Beyond that, you are free to do quite a lot of things for a living, but they are not all going to come with their own evident purposes. Supplying that purpose is going to be up to you.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart once said he could not define pornography, but he knew it when he saw it. Reverence is a little like that. It is difficult to define, but you know it when you feel it.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
- Barbara Kingsolver
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
- Barbara Kingsolver
It's what you do that makes your soul.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
- Publilius Syrus
I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The fact that Facebook presents facial recognition programmes as a desirable development, well, that in itself is a decisive step toward fascism, as far as I'm concerned.
- Christoph Waltz
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I deplore sexual harassment.
- Lawrence Wright
I like having fun, but the most important thing is to be as good a person as you can be.
- Lady Colin Campbell