Quotes About Ethics

One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured.

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998)

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.

As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation.

The good life as I conceive it is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.

Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.

My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.'

Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.