Quotes About Ethics

I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.

They say love thy neighbor as thy self , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too?

Love can make even nice people do awful things.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary trouble to any of His creatures.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

If the thing loved is base, the lover becomes base.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

I love advertising because I love lying.

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?

Corporations can have no soul but they can love each other.

People love WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption in their opponents. People oppose WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption or dangerous behavior in themselves.

Sincerity is the way of heaven.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.

Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning.

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.