Quotes about Ethics

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

Good character improves every aspect of a person's life.

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

Every Christian can witness to God in the workplace, not only with words, but above all with an honest life.

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.

According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhis, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break