Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

"You have to make sure you're doing it for the right reasons"

Patrick Wilson, Actor

"I know the difference between right and wrong, and I'm not going to equivocate on that"

Robert Kardashian, Lawyer

"As a rule, lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win"

Bill Williams, Celebrity

"I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever"

Ethan Hawke, Actor

"It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed"

Simon Conway Morris, Scientist

"Did I put them in contact with the people to acquire them? Yes. Did I educate them on how to use them properly, and what way, shape, or form, and when, and with what supplements? Yes. Absolutely"

Jose Canseco, Athlete

"The best religion is the most tolerant"

Delphine de Girardin, Novelist

"Use, don't abuse"

Grace Jones, Model

"There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said"

Pete Waterman, Producer

"Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth"

Albion W. Small, Sociologist

"In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules"

Jeff Probst, Entertainer

"There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer"

Robert Staughton Lynd, Sociologist

"Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in their dust"

James Shirley, Dramatist

"The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some, this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat"

Grace Slick, Musician

"The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure"

Sam Waterston, Actor

"A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong"

Mike Thompson, Politician

"It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds"

Kay Granger, Politician

"There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts, almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive"

Thomas Shepard, Clergyman

"Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with"

Lisa Kudrow, Actress

"Everyone steals from something or someone"

Janice Dickinson, Model

"I distinguish between nationalism and patriotism"

Michael Ignatieff, Politician

"Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty"

Eugene Sue, Novelist

"There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral"

Ida Tarbell, Journalist

"Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order"

Basil Hume, Clergyman

"Moral indignation in most cases is 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy"

Vittorio De Sica, Director

"Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?"

Basil Bunting, Poet

"I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity"

James Ellroy, Writer

"Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person"

Todd Akin, Politician

"A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example"

Robert Menzies, Statesman

"As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly"

Jo Ann Davis, Politician

"Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering"

Jane Rule, Author

"Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity"

Jane Rule, Author

"It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again"

Hiawatha, Statesman

"Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty"

Edmund Pendleton, Politician

"Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on"

Budd Schulberg, Writer

"Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts"

Budd Schulberg, Writer

"The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live"

Bernard de Mandeville, Philosopher

"When everything is for 'fun', nothing is for the good"

Anne Stevenson, Poet

"Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct"

Robert Vaughan, Author

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