Quotes About Ethics

They delighted in destroying the life of animals; and the use of flesh for food rendered them still more cruel and bloodthirsty, until they came to regard human life with astonishing indifference.

When the character is lacking in purity, when sin has become a part of the character, it has a bewitching power that is equal to the intoxicating glass of liquor.

Reasons for Discarding Flesh Foods Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct, by eating the food that God provided for our use!

El que teme verdaderamente a Dios preferirá trabajar noche y día y comer su pan en la pobreza antes que satisfacer un afán de ganancias que oprimiría a la viuda y a los huérfanos, o despojaría al extraño de su derecho

it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

It was the right and responsible thing to do, so they put it off until later.

If enough dishonest merchants water their milk, more and more customers will forget what normal milk tastes like and buy only the cheaper - watered down - variety.

Carter found particularly noxious "a mistaken idea of freedom [as] the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others.

sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

If it pains you to discover that a Nice Man can be a crumbum, Tom, it's life you've got to object to, not Percy in particular.

For remember always the maxim: He who would know right must first know wrong!

But they forget that crime is the criminal's business, and that every business leaves its indelible mark of habit on the business man.

He who would know right must first know wrong!

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

You're not really afraid you'll hurt him. You're afraid because you believe it was wrong even to think it. But having a thought, even an awful one, is different from acting on it. All the difference in the world.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

A man does what he feels is right, no matter what it costs him.

La tristeza es un derecho humano? Si no es debería serlo.

Gratitude is the least remembered of all virtues but is the acid test of character.

Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like.

I always felt, you don't have a good time doin crime, you may as well find a job.