Quotes About Ethics

How you do anything is how you do everything.

Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient.

Always respect life. Then you'll value yours. The hard part isn't turning you into a killer. The hard part is keeping you human.

Doing the right thing feels like shit.

If this is their idea of making things even, they're working with the wrong set of scales.

To a large degree we have preached our own version of the knowledge of good and evil as though it were the message of salvation. We need to confess that we have sinned in the gravest fashion by frequently loving our version of truth and ethics more than people, and even God himself. For one cannot genuinely love God while refusing to love one's neighbor (1 John 4:20).

Our choices matter. Much hangs in the balance. Our freedom is God's risk and our dignity.

What makes a human being human? When does a human being become a person? When does a human being cease to be a person? What is the significance of being human? Is there an inherent value with inherent rights that go along with being human? These

A little hypocrisy and a little compromise oils the wheels of social life

amateur gynecology.

To expect the world to treat you fairly because you're a good person, my new friend, is like expecting a bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian.

To expect the world to treat you fairly because you're a good person, my friend, is like expecting a bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian.

he had never understood why it was better to kill plants than animals.

Moral high ground is a wonderful place to site your artillery. —NAPOLÉON

Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.

Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

Remember,' Khader said insistently, resting his hand on my forearm to emphasise his words. 'Sometimes it is necessary to do the wrong thing for the right reasons. The important thing is to be sure that our reasons are right, and that we admit the wrong--that we do not lie to ourselves, and convince ourselves that what we do is right.

Motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad.

Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, is that it works so well.

This is why killing and stealing are wrong—not because a book tells us they are wrong, or a law tells us they are wrong, or a spiritual guide tells us they are wrong, but because if everyone did them we would not move toward the ultimate complexity that is God, with the rest of the universe.

If you get paid in money, somebody, somewhere, is suffering for it.