Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

"There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life"

Stuart Pearce, Coach

"There is a noble and a base side to every history"

Thomas Wentworth, Politician

"We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways: sex crimes, black masses"

Terence Fisher, Director

"I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing"

Dan Savage, Writer

"Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience"

Caspar Weinberger, Public Servant

"We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep"

Carl von Ossietzky, Activist

"No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them"

Bernard de Mandeville, Philosopher

"I have a strong moral sense - by my standards"

Rex Stout, Writer

"When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray"

Laura Schlessinger, Writer

"By vulgarity, I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else"

Solomon Schechter, Clergyman

"The right-to-life movement and the Roman Catholic Church are saying that it is better to destroy these embryos, or preferably have them adopted - which is not going to happen - than to use them for research"

Mort Kondracke, Journalist

"Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that"

Philip Kaufman, Director

"I think abortion is murder"

Victoria Jackson, Comedian

"For some men, the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life"

Myriam Miedzian, Actress

"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public"

Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Explorer

"If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean, it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better"

Jonathan Frakes, Actor

"I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me"

Roger Spottiswoode, Director

"Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred"

Lance Loud, Actor

"Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971"

Grace Slick, Musician

"I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want"

GG Allin, Musician

"People make these comments all the time. They talk about this with their loved ones every day. People's feedings - tube feedings - are stopped across this country every day"

Michael Schiavo, Celebrity

"I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism, because in many ways, if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy, and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology"

Jonathan Krohn, Author

"One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences"

Raymond E. Feist, Author

"A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality"

William Winwood Reade, Historian

"So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use of adult stem cells? Because they do not know the difference"

Virginia Foxx, Politician

"I definitely know that I play the part, however big or small, in the deaths of at least two people, Chris Farley and Phil Hartmann"

Andy Dick, Actor

"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?"

Van Wyck Brooks, Critic

"I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement"

Heather Donahue, Actress

"The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice"

Harold Rosenberg, Writer

"Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse"

Terence Fisher, Director

"Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience"

Murray Kempton, Journalist

"More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice"

Robert Smith Surtees, Novelist

"Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good"

John Shelby Spong, Clergyman

"If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

"Of the unjust rights which, in virtue of this ceremony, an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself"

Robert Dale Owen, Politician

"The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy"

George C. Williams, Scientist

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