Quotes About Ethics

ya gotta be one of the good guys...'cause there's too many of the bad.

An' you turn your back on your friend, you may as well go ahead an' join the asshole squad, 'cause you just became one more reason why the damn world's gone to hell.

King Karma; I know that karma is a force in this universe, and that people will receive karmic justice for their actions. I know that this justice will come when the universe deems it appropriate and it may not be in this lifetime or the next, or the one after that.... but it will come.

I marveled at them both; how difficult it must be to be a person. To constantly subvert your desires. To worry about doing the right thing, rather than doing what is most expedient.

Truth, honesty, integrity, he said. "And loyalty. Above truth, honesty, and integrity, I would demand loyalty. Loyalty above all. You have to swear an oath." "I can never put loyalty above truth honesty and integrity. . . don't demand loyalty over truth. Don't ever do that.

Ob?udoval sem oba; kako težjo je biti ?lovek. Da nenehno zatajuješ svoje želje. Da te skrbi, ali boš naredil, kar je prav, namesto, da bi naredil, kaj bi najraje.

We are terrified to see what fallible, arrogant humanity can do with the hard steel of the absolute standards of right and wrong.

In Victorian times, one of the more serious reasons for opposing Darwin was the fear that his theories would lead to the law of the jungle, the abandonment of ethical constraints in society.

In Victorian times, one of the more serious reasons for opposing Darwin was the fear that his theories would lead to the law of the jungle, the abandonment of ethical constraints in society. In nearly all of these cases, however, it is not so much science as its application (often by nonscientists) that has been under judgment.

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

The living of your life is hard work, young Master Carter... You may act the gentleman or the barbarian." "Those are the only two choices?" "Yes," said the Butler, "the only two...

Would you have left a guy being beat up to go find a teacher?' I asked. My father, he wiped his hand across his face, and what was left behind was a smile. Really, a smile. 'Not in a million years,' he said.

Obedience is required conformity. Responsibility is voluntary conformity. Obedience is submission to a person. Responsibility is submission to a principle.

The hunter, as Theodore Roosevelt defined him, a man who fights for the integrity of both his prey and the land that sustained it, is being too often overwhelmed by men concerned mostly with playing dress up and shooting guns.

Beyond the economics of production efficiency, animal welfare laws that require "humane" treatment are really not about animals; they're about humans and making humans feel better about using animals. We can comfort ourselves with the idea that we are acting in a "humane" way.

Take karma, make dharma.

Now he finds a way to embrace truth, not as a body of theoretical knowledge, but as a way of living: not an epistemology, but an ethics, of truth.

A life entirely devoted to the avoidance of wrong seldom achieves anything exceptionally right—or anything at all.

He also made all Muslims publicly forswear that part of their Holy Quran which permits them to dupe, cheat and kill all who are not of Islam.

Acknowledge your critics, but do what's right.

If I do the right thing, the money will be there.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." —Arnold H. Glasow

The word euthanasia literally means "good death.

If you really care about animals, then stop trying to figure out how to exploit them 'compassionately'. Just stop exploiting them.