Quotes about Ethics

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

America has swerved from its ethical center.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

To kick off a merchant is to censor ideas and interfere with the free exchange of products at the core of commerce. When we kick off a merchant, we're asserting our own moral code as the superior one. But who gets to define that moral code?

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The lack of moral character is the number one problem in the black community today