Quotes About Ethics

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

Being vegan is not always easy and accessible. But it's a way of life and makes me as a person feel really good and physically look better.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

If you talk about corruption, you can talk about a lot of things in life.

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.

You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.

It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.

Your integrity is more precious than your life.

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.

Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority.

Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life.

Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life.

Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.

I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

I would say that failure to terraform Mars constitutes failure to live up to our human nature and a betrayal of our responsibility as members of the community of life itself

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.

No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.