Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

"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

"As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'"

Sam Brownback, Politician

"The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others"

Marvin Harris, Scientist

"Every religion, there's something foul going on"

Ja Rule, Musician

"I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power"

Harmon Killebrew, Athlete

"Obligations may be universal or particular"

Tom G. Palmer, Educator

"Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder"

Richard Francis Burton, Explorer

"The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics"

Richard Curtis, Writer

"Ultimately, we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?"

Robert Shea, Author

"Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear"

Robert Shea, Author

"Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power"

Robert Shea, Author

"Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think, then, as a society, we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best"

Rob Morrow, Actor

"Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race"

Blake Edwards, Director

"The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue"

George A. Smith, Clergyman

"If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody"

Thomas Wilson, Writer

"It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories"

Stanley Fish, Writer

"Anybody can kill anybody"

Lynette Fromme, Criminal

"There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience"

Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Writer

"The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle"

George E. Brown, Jr., Politician

"It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct"

Frederick Scott Oliver, Writer

"I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!"

Jay Alan Sekulow, Lawyer

"But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time"

Elias Hicks, Clergyman

"Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations"

Timothy McVeigh, Criminal

"To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard"

David Soul, Actor

"In the world we make good as evil and evil as good"

James Caviezel, Actor

"I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual"

Luke Ford, Writer

"Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends"

Giorgos Seferis, Poet

"Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer"

Dick Francis, Author

"If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one"

Eleanor Clift, Journalist

"Men are more accountable for their motives than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is, in the affections"

Archibald Alexander, Clergyman

"I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen"

Alexander Walker, Businessman

"What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it"

Bryan Singer, Director

"One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them"

Ivo Andric, Writer

"It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone"

Richard Karn, Actor

"I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero"

Mackenzie Astin, Actor

"We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible"

Allan Massie, Writer

"We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed"

Sandy Duncan, Musician

"Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far"

Marge Schott, Businessman

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