Patti Davis Quotes

It won’t go over with the WASPS. They take a dim view of looking over your shoulder at someone else’s exam paper. They go in more for stealing from stockholders and banks.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

If you say, 'I don't want to offend anyone,' then don't get on stage. Just ask yourself, 'Do I think it is right? Do I think it is offensive? And do I think that everyone is okay to hear this? If I truly believe this, then I should go and do this.'

It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.

I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices that are unethical, like buying projects. They do not realise that such attempts will not make their child brighter or think over ideas.

You must legislate morality.

We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

Since the state is a community of human beings it is as truly subject to the moral law as any private society.

Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by maudlin sentimentality, but by the higher duty I owe myself.

These people may travel and trade in New Amsterdam and live and remain there, provided the poor among them shall not be a burden to the Company or to the community, but be supported by their own nation (other Jews).

Because market forces and institutions are ethically indifferent, they require a deliberative, communal intelligence to prevent extreme injustice.

The story of America is the story of an ever widening circle of human care and responsibility.

I am going to use every rostrum and every forum and every searchlight that I can to tell the people of the country and their elected representatives that we can no longer afford overcrowded classrooms and half-day sessions. We just must not, we just cannot afford the great waste that comes from the neglect of a single child.

When a system goes astray, it is the right and obligation of citizens to oppose it and change it-for themselves and for generations to come