Quotes About Ethics

Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.

My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

People love that monkey torture.

I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.

Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

I realized that all animals, not just dogs and cats and horses, were sentient beings; therefore, I just couldn't say I love animals and then eat them.

Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.

Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.

Journalists love to show their compassion.

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

I'm in love with my second cousin.

the action we take in the name of love,those are moral or immoral.and normally it wouldn't matter

La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.

It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you.

It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete.

Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.

For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.

People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.

I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.