Quotes About Ethics

I tell you what I won't put up with. You chose how to behave.

Let's throw away our throwaway culture

Ethical egoism is the thesis that a person should act to promote his own interest. More precisely, it is the view that each person's primary moral obligation is to achieve his own well-being and he should not sacrifice his well-being for the well-being of others.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

The artist without social responsibility who provokes anger instead of dialogue threatens the field of discourse itself.

Muhammad particularly loved cats, but, more generally, he constantly made his Companions aware of the need to respect all animal species. He

It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

The dead are notoriously unreliable when it comes to standards of behavior," I said. "Particularly murder victims. They have no sense of decorum at all.

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

Please understand that. But it's essential we stay vigilant in the protection of our characters. What does a

lady have that matters more than her reputation?" "I can think of lots of things," I said, but wasn't allowed to continue.

The first training, ethics (also called ethical conduct or moral discipline) is crucial in developing the second and the third, concentration and wisdom, and as such is really the foundation for the other two.

So ethical conduct, practicing a moral life, is not something that can effectively be enforced from the outside but must grow out of a subjective understanding of what helps and what harms others.

We avoid harming others not simply because the actions themselves might have obviously negative repercussions, but because the mind that generates an unethical action will cause suffering for ourselves and others in less discernable ways in the future.

look at the company you work for and see what effect they are having on the environment and the people in that environment; see what damage is being done. Even if we personally are not doing anything wrong, if our livelihood is based on something even slightly harmful, subconsciously something happens. That mental state will always disturb our mind.

Understanding conventional truth enables the practitioner to develop the method side—compassion, concentration, and ethics—whereas understanding ultimate truth leads to the realization of the wisdom side—emptiness.

And if you inquire for the good of your brethren only, what more have 21 ye done than others? is not this the conduct of the publicans also?

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

Capitalism is based on the concept that in order for someone to succeed, someone else has to suffer.

Qué pena que cuando los gobiernos deciden entrar en una guerra no puedan coger a sus ejércitos y ponerlos en un recinto cerrado a luchar, algo así como un estadio de fútbol, y no tener que joder a personas inocentes

Who is to blame, then, when everyone is innocent? And what is the value of blame at all?

Sometimes I feel guilty as hell for just being able to live my life." I didn't have to tell him that I understood, because he knew that I did. There should be a word for this, the way it feels to steal something that's already yours.

Rauschenbusch rejected the usual religious emphasis on matters of piety, metaphysics, and the supernatural, interpreting Christianity instead as a spirit of brotherhood made manifest in social ethics.