Ethical Reasoning Quotes

#1. Opinions upon moral questions are more often the expression of strongly felt expediency than of careful ethical reasoning; and the opinions so formed by one generation become the conscientious convictions or the sacred instincts of the next.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil

#2. I have this philosophy that A and B students work for C students.

Kenny Troutt

#3. Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own moral and ethical failings honestly according to a secular code of right and wrong.

Deborah Feldman

#4. Do you know what happened to Teacup?"
"Ran away with the spoon, what I heard.

Rick Yancey

#5. At the outset the matter of Ted's taste arose.

Walter Terry

#6. An asshole who sometimes pretends to be nice totally has the ability to suck you back in, making you think that you had him all wrong.

Lauren Barnholdt

#7. In thinking about ethics, we should not hesitate to question ethical views that are almost universally accepted if we have reasons for thinking that they may not be as securely grounded as they appear to be.

Peter Singer

#8. If you can't find a job, use your special gift to create a job.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. The next time you gossip, gossip about yourself and see how you like it." It just creates a mud of negativity, false information, and puts bad atmosphere out.

Timothy White

#10. I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes.

Maurice Motamed

#11. In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#12. Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.

Svetlana Alexievich

#13. Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

Terence McKenna