Quotes About Ethics

One dies the way he lives.

You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.

Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher.

Things you Do to live a Happy life, shouldn't ruin others'.

He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.

Nice guys finish last but bad guys don't finish at all.

Taking a life, is not worth getting life in prison.

There are always two voices in our heads, the good and the bad. The tricky part is to figure out which one of them is doing the talking.

If you need someone to explain morality to you, then you likely have little of it to draw from.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

If it judges your conscience, then you are in some way guilty of it by action, words or omission.

A good human being can still be molded from bad clay

There's plenty of food, other than non-vegetarian, here, on this earth. So, don't hurt, kill and eat animals to increase your girth

INTEGRITY...Choosing your thoughts, words and actions based on what's right rather than what's in it for you.

have no way of knowing what combination of external pressures and personal failings led that physician to conceal a less costly cure from my friend and keep her on expensive and ineffective drugs with a gallery of noxious side effects instead, but from outside the walls of the office, it certainly looked like a callous betrayal of whatever ethics the medical profession might still have left—and again, the view from outside is the one that counts.

Virtue ethicists, taking their cue from Aristotle, define moral behavior as behavior that expresses virtues, which are principles that lead to excellence in human life. Some virtues derive from others, but there's no single principle from which all virtues unfold.

George Bernard Shaw once quipped that politicians can always rely on Paul's vote if they give him money that they steal from Peter. This understates the problem with democracy because Paul is an old man and Peter is either a child or unborn.

Abash'd the Devil stood,And felt how awful goodness is, and sawVirtue in her shape how lovely.

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

And out of good still to find means of evil.

He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.