Quotes About Ethics

Do not be wise in words — be wise in deeds.

When life gives you lemons, please, just don't squirt them in other people's eyes.

Should people take justice in their own hands when their system of law does not function?

Jews refuse to apply Kant's categorical imperative and be limited by universal rules. We might attempt a definition of a Jew as someone unable to make an objective moral judgement. His arguments will forever vary according to whether the subject is good for Jews or bad for Jews. WMD are bad in gentile hands but good in Jewish ones. Gentile nationalism is bad, devotion to the Jewish cause is good. Equal rights for Jews and non-Jews is good in Europe but bad in Palestine.

Anyone who grows up around farm animals cannot side with a wolf in the long clash of things. But you can be against tormenting any creature.

Ako ho?eš da znaš kakva je neka država i njena uprava, i kakva im je budu?nost, gledaj samo da saznaš koliko u toj zemlji ima ?estitih i nevinih ljudi po zatvorima, a koliko zlikovaca i prestupnika na slobodi. To ?e ti najbolje kazati.

Nije važno koliko ?ovek vremena uštedi, nego šta s tim ušte?enim vremenom radi; ako ga na zlo upotrebi, onda bi bolje bilo da ga nema. Nije glavno pitanje da li ?ovek brzo ide, nego kud ide i po kakvom poslu.

Ko obrazom pla?a ono što ste?e, taj je r?av trgovac.

Svako ljudsko delo i svaka re? mogu da donesu zlo.

Tko obrazom pla?a ono što ste?e, taj je r?av trgovac.

People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.

If It's Not Your Story To Tell,Don't Tell It...

Those whom the devil would tempt, He tells not a lie, but a lesser truth.

I had watched my father, my uncles, my brother, and even my son—only on occasion—treat the women in their lives less than honorably.

Sometimes the unspeakable can come from the decent. And sometimes, it's possible to make yourself decent out of the unspeakable.

He had a conscience as elastic as any politician could wish for.

There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics, or that if you remove His theology - His beliefs about God and judgment, future woe for the wicked and future blessedness for the good - you can leave His ethical teaching intact.

Why should we be indignant about slanders directed against a human friend, while at the same time we are patient about the basest slanders directed against our God?

I should never have allowed the gates of the town to be opened to people who assert that there are higher considerations than those of decency.

Not all murder is evil... In the right time, the right place, for the right reason -- it can be a blessing more profound than any you can imagine

If you hold fast to what's true and right and just, things work out.

Ethics is lived eschatology. It is, as New Testament scholar George Eldon Ladd put it, "the presence of the future."4

If you always depend on laws of the majority to tell you what is wrong then you are risking your own happiness and morality.

Why am I doing this? Will this harm my body, my mind or someone else right now? Will this harm my body, my mind or someone else in the future?