Quotes About Ethics

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.

If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

For me it's not a question of whether we should intrude in family life, but how and when.

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

Abortion is the taking of a life.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.

Thinking evil is making evil.

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

But you can't work for a man you don't trust. Etch that in stone.

Following the Leslie Charteris novels and the film portrayals by suave George Sanders, the radio Saint righted wrongs and aided victims of crime when the law was rendered powerless by restrictive procedure. The Saint simply broke the law, if the result justified it.

the very people who clamor the loudest about animal suffering won't actually pay for meat that has been ethically slaughtered.

When animal rights activists or moral philosophers try to draw moral judgments about wild animal populations, they often suffer from a bad case of "Bambi Ethics" or "Bambi Environmentalism." They apply human morals to nature in a superficial way, without considering the actual ethical or environmental consequences of their actions.

What we do to many factory farm animals is dishonorable in the same way that carelessly wounding an animal while hunting is dishonorable.