Quotes about Ethics

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?

I have a morality. I don't know if it's the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that's fine. That's up to them to decide.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

The colossal slide of integrity (especially masculine ethics) has grim spiritual, domestic, and political implications which threaten the survival of life as we know it.

If I say, "You are wrong for judging people" then by my own standard I am wrong for judging you.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. —SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709—1784)

We are trained to be medical doctors first and if you have to put neurosurgery aside to deal with the most vulnerable and susceptible patients, then that's what we'll do.