Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

"If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that"

Elizabeth Edwards, Lawyer

"For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC"

Frank Rich, Journalist

"We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social"

David E. Kelley, Producer

"I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying"

Jack Abramoff, Criminal

"He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft"

Cass Sunstein, Lawyer

"If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality"

Jay Alan Sekulow, Lawyer

"It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation"

Archibald Alexander, Clergyman

"Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?"

Cal Thomas, Journalist

"People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government"

Cal Thomas, Journalist

"The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped"

Christiaan Barnard, Scientist

"Sins, like chickens, come home to roost"

Charles W. Chesnutt, Novelist

"Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition"

Charles Williams, Editor

"That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due"

Charles Inglis, Clergyman

"All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate"

Charles Inglis, Clergyman

"Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well"

Charles Van Doren, Celebrity

"I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be"

Charles Van Doren, Celebrity

"Ethics in government has always been important to me"

Chris Bell, Politician

"It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story"

Daisy Berkowitz, Musician

"Needless, heedless, wanton, and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism"

Abe Fortas, Judge

"Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards"

Charles W. Chesnutt, Novelist

"Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?"

Alfred de Vigny, Poet

"Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?"

Alfred de Vigny, Poet

"Bodies aren't the same as Coca-Cola cans"

Arthur Caplan, Scientist

"It is not more people that are needed in the world, but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration"

Agnes E. Meyer, Journalist

"If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me"

Charlie Hunnam, Actor

"I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging"

Alexander Theroux, Novelist

"Universalism as an ideal is as old as, nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it"

Carl Olson, Athlete

"If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls"

Arthur Capper, Politician

"And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character"

Bainbridge Colby, Public Servant

"But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm"

Algernon H. Blackwood, Writer

"It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable"

Andrew Cohen, Writer

"I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about"

Bai Ling, Actress

"Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth"

Lady Gregory, Dramatist

"What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition"

Asia Argento, Actress

"Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities"

Josiah Stamp, Businessman

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