Quotes about Ethics
A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement
- Edmund Burke
where there is no sound reason, there can be no real virtue.
- Edmund Burke
ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be opened through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.
- Edmund Burke
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will . . . than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of a political benevolence.
- Edmund Burke
It only needs a good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
- Edmund Burke
The restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are both to be reckoned among their rights.
- Edmund Burke
There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive.
- Edmund Burke
Sin is not rational.
- Edward Welch
Where everyone is responsible, no one is really responsible.
- Albert Bandura
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
- Albert Camus
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
- Albert Camus
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.
- Albert Camus