Quotes About Ethics

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

I can't do it, Uncle Richard, I said. You can. You have it in you to do it. You're a good person. I'm not. I don't want to be a good person. I started to cry. He held me close then. And what he said surprised me. What makes you think any of us want to be good people, Ebie? You know, I never agreed with these Puritan preachers, who tell us we're all inherently bad. I think we're all inherently good. And we fight against it, all our lives.

Your uncle Lawrence is a very moral man. He knows, in his heart, what is right. And he'll do it, no matter what people say of him. I nodded. But how do we know when we're doing the right thing, Father? He drew up the horse's reins in front of our house. We don't always, Ebie. Answers don't come easily. At least they never have, to me. I've done many a wrong thing in my time. But I've always tried to make up for it.

If, as many people believe today, Ted Bundy took lives, he also saved lives. I know he did, because I was there when he did it.

Guilt has no right to profit by the generosity of the guiltless.

If you look long into human nature, you will see that the bonds which hold the firmest are not material ones, that an idea will make a man and mold a character, that it lies at the source of all heroisms, and is to be courted or feared, as the case may be.

When the Fascists entered Denmark, the Jews were ordered to sew yellow stars on their clothing so they could be easily recognized. The Danes promptly sewed on yellow stars, both to save the Jews and to save themselves from turning into Fascists. Their king joined with them. In

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

All very well for you religious chaps to talk so, said Larry, but I'll turn a shilling when I can. I don't believe in religion,for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

They healed in time, and they forgot the pain, but the nice soft flap, that of course was intended to protect the delicate part of their ears from dust and injury, was gone forever. Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut the end off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?

there is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham—all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out.

Una elección es cosa muy seria, o al menos debería serlo, y cada uno debería votar según su propia conciencia y dejar que el vecino haga lo mismo.

We have no right to distress any of God's creatures without a very good reason.

Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut the end off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?

that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Il mondo va male perché la gente pensa solo agli affari propri, e non si preoccupa mai di prendere le parti di chi è ingiustamente oppresso o di smascherare i malfattori. Per fortuna

do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

To my mind, fashion is one of the wickedest things in the world.

I have heard the commandments read a great many times and I never noticed that any of them said, Thou shalt be rich

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a scam.

Bir ÅŸey doÄŸruysa, onu yapman?n yolu bulunur; yok yanl??sa, onsuz yapman?n yolu da bulunur. Ä°yi bir insan çaresini bulacakt?r.

unutmay?n ki gün gelecek hepimiz yapt?klar?m?z?n hesab?n? vereceÄŸiz, insanlara ve hayvanlara yapt?klar?m?z?n.

There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.