Quotes About Ethics

If rebirth exists, that is all right: I will simply try to continue practicing everything good and refrain from everything bad through my next life. If there is no rebirth, I will have nothing to do after my death and I will have no need to consider my practice. This was my view of rebirth for most of my life as a Buddhist.

sometimes in life you have to do things your not proud of!

A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society.

Sie töten so gerne Tiere, weil es unter Strafe steht, Menschen umzubringen, und weil sie doch so gerne auslöschen, am liebsten sich. Wie die Augen blind werden, im Augenblick des Übergangs von einem beseelten Lebewesen zu einem Fleisch. Seele. Das Wort für den Herzschlag.

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, Is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions.

The toughest task of late for a HUMAN BEING is BEING HUMAN!!!!

Two wrongs may not make a right, but they can surely mislead a right.

If professionals consider one thing "unjust," it is often this: Split-second operational decisions that get evaluated, turned over, examined, picked apart, and analyzed for months—by people who were not there when the decision was taken, and whose daily work does not even involve such decisions.

Creating a climate in which disclosure is possible and acceptable is the organization's responsibility.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

Joe Biden's been pimping out his son for years.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

Love is not an honorable sentiment

I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

But I didn't realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.