Quotes About Ethics

Being a 'good man' is something you do, not something you are.

Love has little to do with romance and everything to do with honor.

Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.

Having another creature absolutely committed to me is a big boost to my ego, makes me feel like the king of my castle. But its no way for a dog to live.

Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in.

I am longing to show him my love, but not by doing what is wrong

If God thought it necessary to offer rewards for love, your God must be immoral.

If you're heartless, try not to steal someone else's

For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.

Love teaches a good person to do bad and a bad person to do good.

In your mind you are cheating somebody, but in reality you are cheating yourself.

We have the right and the responsibility to be intolerant of those things which should not be tolerated.

When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it.

Just because you are a nice guy, doesn't mean you are a good man.

There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite; dishonesty may not always pay but surely it sometimes does

You can rigidly enforce only those laws that most people believe to be good laws, that is, laws that proscribe actions that they would avoid even in the absence of laws.

Then with his first step he goes to (the hell of) evil thoughts, with his second to (the hell of) evil words, and with his third to (the hell of) evil deeds.

You always say oh, that's so unprofessional as though there's some definition of professional that's also a moral imperative for how to behave.

Surely, she says, encouraging others to lie on our behalves must be a worse sin than lying ourselves.

Yolandi, the central character in the book All My Puny Sorrows says that "the core of the argument for it [assisted suicide] is maximizing individual autonomy and minimizing human suffering" (p. 222).

Això d'animar les altres a mentir en benefici nostre ha de ser un pecat més greu que el de mentir nosaltres mateixes.

What's wrong with sleeping with a lawyer? I asked.