Quotes About Ethics

Is it really such an admirable trait not to let myself be influenced by others? Am I right in following my own conscience? To

noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behaviour and weigh up the rights and wrongs. They would automatically try to do better at the start of each new day and, after a while, would certainly accomplish a great deal. Everyone is welcome to this prescription; it costs nothing and is definitely useful. Those who don't know will have to find out by experience that 'a quiet conscience gives you strength'! Yours

Porque para quien aún no lo sepa, que tome nota y lo viva en su propia carne: ¡una conciencia tranquila te hace sentir fuerte!

Oh, it's sad, very sad that the old adage has been confirmed for the umpteenth time: "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does reflects on all Jews.

Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world?

Ä°nsan ruhu ne kadar yüce de yapt?klar? ne kadar aÅŸa??l?k!

How noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behavior and weigh up the rights and wrongs.

No amor e na guerra vale tudo.

As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world's poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

Everyone, from almost every tradition, agrees on five things. Rule 1: We are all family. Rule 2: You reap exactly what you sow, that is, you cannot grow tulips from zucchini seeds. Rule 3: Try to breathe every few minutes or so. Rule 4: It helps beyond words to plant bulbs in the dark of winter. Rule 5: It is immoral to hit first. [pp.313-314]

My father treated them with respect and kindness, his main philosophical and spiritual position being: Don't be an asshole.

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

The one truth that would help us begin to solve our ethical and political problems [is] that we are all more or less wrong, that we are all at fault, all limited and obstructed by our mixed motives, our self-deception, our greed, our self-righteousness and our tendency to aggression and hypocrisy.

We think that if our values aren't the correct ones, we would have other ones, which would then be the correct ones.

Meli, are you sure these humans are on our side?) (No ... but at least they are not Khieevi.) (That is beginning to seem less and less of a recommendation. Like us in form, perhaps, but hardly in ethics.) (That may not be entirely a bad thing. If they meet their friends with weapons in both hands, what do you suppose they do to their enemies?)

But Lord Raid and Lord Sifer had an unpleasant habit of reminding Benden Weyr riders of their loyalty at every opportunity. Gratitude is an ill-fitting tunic that can chafe and smell if worn too long. Lord

History is amoral: events occurred. But memory is moral; what we consciously remember is what our conscience remembers.

We made our paints from the bones of the animals we painted. No image forgets this origin.

You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself--if that's what it comes to.

Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.

If you drive a man to choose between death of his body or corruption of his soul, how much are you also to blame if his choice is the wrong one?

My family, my country—right or wrong.' It is the ultimate betrayal of God.