Ethics Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““It is very wrong to kill any one[.]" "Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ethics Philosophy
“It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
“Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?” — 1992 National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Copy Share Image
“No one must ever fancy another human being so much more evil than themselves that killing was justified.” — Jessica Amanda Salmonson Copy Share Image
“Why do we kill people, who have killed people, to show that killing people is wrong?” — Holly Near Copy Share Image
“Don’t you know it is wrong to kill? Yes. But you do it? Yes. And you still believe absolutely that your cause is right?… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“if we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“You can’t understand my work if you lack the moral deficiency to kill indiscriminately.” — Martyn V. Halm Copy Share Image
For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image