Quotes About Ethics

Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.

Make the man within your living ideal.

I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself

... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

People have choices in this life. They should exercise them responsibly.

I think vegetarians - for a lot of them - it's about a lack of commitment to life and relationships. There are some who just like the fact that they're controlling something in their life.

Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life.

American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.

In writing, as in life, always be true to your character.

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.

Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.