Quotes About Ethics

The Buddha encouraged people to "know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them." The message is always to examine and see for yourself. When you see for yourself what is true-and that's really the only way that you can genuinely know anything-then embrace it. Until then, just suspend judgment and criticism.

Men respect standards- get some!

Property being theft and all, I felt free to help myself.

medieval attitudes such as "the only good croc is a dead one," "the only good shark is a dead shark," "there's a snake—quick, kill it.

There are still countries that kill dolphins for use as crab bait!

Oddly enough, Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses was a big Depeche Mode fan and he invited them to join him at a heavy metal nightclub, the Cat House. However, when he went off to a friend's Beverly Hills barbecue and allegedly shot a pig, Depeche Mode were sufficiently shocked to issue a statement: '... as strict vegetarians, the band were appalled by Rose's behaviour and do not wish to associate themselves with anyone who goes around shooting pigs for fun.

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same thing."

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Their holiness didn't have a thing to do with what they did or didn't do.

C.S. Lewis was right when he said, "Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

Before he even arrived, he sent each top police official a framed, hand-embroidered motto: Police Unto Others As You Would Have Them Police Unto You. What did that mean? Don't arrest anybody because you wouldn't like to be arrested?

The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

Political philosophy is the study of the deepest, most intractable, and most enduring problems of political life.

The study of political philosophy has always revolved around such questions as "Why should I obey the law?" "What is a citizen and how should he or she be educated?" "Who is a lawgiver?" "What is the relation between freedom and authority?" "How should politics and theology be related?" and perhaps a few of others.

They're worth being scared of," I said. "They'd kill without a second thought." "I hate to say this, Boss, but so would you." "Yeah, but I'm a nice guy.

Law is a reflection of society, justice is a reflection of an idealization of that society.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

One thing we've learned is that when people, especially politicians, start making decisions based on a reading of their moral compass, facts tend to be among the first casualties.

But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their own interests ahead of others'. This doesn't make them bad people; it just makes them human.

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer. -Lester Maddox, governor of Georgia, arguing against the creation of a state consumer protection agency