Quotes About Ethics

KCR is not a Chief Minister, he is a cheap minister.

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

The Five Mindfulness Trainings are needed because we're not fully enlightened yet. We don't need to practice the five trainings perfectly. If we know we're making steps in the right direction, that's good enough.

Having a good job is important. But being honest, living peacefully, and having a path to follow is more important.

The idea is that we try our best to protect life, knowing that we cannot be perfect. If we're doing our best, that's good enough.

The First Mindfulness Training is about protecting the lives of human beings, animals, vegetables, and minerals. To protect other beings is to protect ourselves. The second is to prevent the exploitation by humans of other living beings and of nature.

We have no other ground. We will receive the fruits of any act we have done, whether wholesome or unwholesome.

When living in an era where there is no Buddha, taking care of one's parents is as virtuous and meritorious as taking care of the Buddha.

We transmit our thoughts, speech and actions - collectively known as our karma to our children and to the world, that is our future.

We have to look deeply to see how we grow our food, so we can eat in ways that preserve our collective well-being, minimize our suffering and the suffering of other species, and allow the earth to continue to be a source of life for all of us. If, while we eat, we destroy living beings or the environment, we are eating the flesh of our own sons and daughters. We need to look deeply together and discuss how to eat, what to eat, and what to resist. This will be a real Dharma discussion.

I know that the actions of body, speech and mind are my only true belongings. I know I cannot escape the consequences of my actions of body, speech and mind.

So why does the National Chicken Council feel it's important that Americans eat chickens who are infected with cancer?

Human behavior, ninety-eight percent of it, is an abomination.

You could treat people right without fearing or trying to please God. You could do it simply because it was human to do it, because love was a more ennobling tendency than hate, and if you were lucky, maybe you could live with yourself and sleep nights.

Dac? Å£inem doar la oamenii de înalt caracter,în cel mai scurt timp se face pustiu în jurul nostru.Trebuie s?-i frecvent?m ÅŸi pe cei aÅŸa-ziÅŸi f?r? caracter,ca s? rezist?m,ca s? nu pierim spiritual.Oamenii aÅŸa zicând de caracter sunt cei care,cu vremea doar ne plicitisesc ÅŸi ne omoar?.

she said spontaneously that all well-to-do and rich people are inhuman. But was she human then? I had asked her, to which she gave no answer.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

If we humans can so easily wash the blood of our fellow humans off our hands, then what hope is there for sparing our future generations from a repeat of the genocides and mass killings of the past?

I am sorry for only two things. These two things are: I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my life time and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole darned human race

The lingering effects of war can inspire callousness even after the guns have fallen silent. Many of us have seen the notorious clip from 60 Minutes in which Madeleine Albright, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and soon to be U.S. Secretary of State, declared that the price of half a million dead children as a result of the sanctions against Iraq during the 1990s had been "worth it.

The issue is whether the orders are morally acceptable or not, and that question is not answered by anti-intellectual demands of obedience.

I am getting more and more convinced that the war-peace question is the key to the whole libertarian business," Rothbard noted privately in 1956. I am equally convinced. If we can't get this right, who cares about the Department of Education or the minimum wage?

Vitoria and his allies believed that natural law existed not just among Christians but among all peoples.

The foundation of morality to have done, once and for all, with lying.