Quotes About Ethics

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

But I did what I thought was right in the moment. In the end, that's all a man has to measure his life, and it's plenty.

I would not say I was a nonbeliever; rather, that I gave little if any thought to celestial concerns. It did not seem to me that God, whoever he was, would be the sort of god to take an interest in the minutiae of human affairs, or that this fact released us from the duty to go about our lives in a spirit of decency to others.

The guy could sell sunlamps in a cancer ward.

In 1945, scientific knowledge leaped way ahead of our maturity as a species. We are still lagging way behind.

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

Killing things shouldn't make you happy, Rosa. That's why they're worried.

Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Honesty is praised and starves.

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.

But who is to guard the guards themselves?

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having.

One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.

Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?"

Any powerful technology can be abused.

Evil flourishes because the good aren't good enough," see murmured. "And sometimes the good just have bad days.

There is no absolute right or wrong, good or evil, but there are good manners and common decency.

Obviously, there's no way of making money that doesn't hurt somebody somewhere, but there are degrees of scale and immediacy. A merchant prince or a banker or a wealthy landowner isn't generally required to take responsibility for the people he cheats, screws and starves; society couldn't function if that were the case.

I had my pick of three. Never ceases to amaze me, the insane things people will do for money.