Quotes About Ethics

Whenever there is a conflict between being right and being kind, if possible, choose being kind.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.

Take away what we love, wed all be Joe Paterno.

If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?" What kind of a question is that?!" No need to snap. It was just a question.

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.

Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity."

I want him to live if HE wants to live. If he doesn't, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me..... we become just another shitty bunch of people taking away his choices.

I frowned at the list. "So… I'll go back and tell the Traynors that I'm going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympics—

Sometimes, I said, a lie is the way of least pain for everyone.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

Even if you do not feel it now, there is pleasure to be had from being a decent person.

Every act has a consequence. In my view the world divides into people who can see that, and make a decision accordingly, and those who just go for what feels good at the time.

Every act has a consequence, Ellie. In my view the world divides into people who can see that, and make a decision accordingly, and those who just go for what feels good at the time.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. • ANNA SEWELL, Black

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. • ANNA SEWELL, Black Beauty

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.

There's nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.

There's nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.

You want to be a passionate leader who makes decisions that are based on belief and principle over those that are based on feeling.