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Quotes About Ethics

There is honor between bitches
~ Tess Gerritsen
FUCK YOU TESS THOMPSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its in the Lords hands.....Hope the LORD takes you the same way straight to hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~ Tess Thompson Talley
I wish I knew how one is supposed to live. I wish somebody had taught me. Why do people we take for authorities when we are children let us down in this respect? Who is to tell us which is right? The cross, the crescent, the hammer and sickle, the smiling Buddha? do as you would be done by.
~ Tessa de Loo
Only a buzzard feeds on his friends.
~ Texas Bix Bender
Save the world, not your money
~ Thad Guidry
I can't say I know at this moment what all these laws are. But on some level everybody knows that we are all getting exactly what we deserve.
~ Thaddeus Golas
Phenomena are preceded by the heart, ruled by the heart, made of the heart. If you speak or act with a corrupted heart, then suffering follows you — as the wheel of the cart, the track of the ox that pulls it. Phenomena are preceded by the heart, ruled by the heart, made of the heart. If you speak or act with a calm, bright heart, then happiness follows you, like a shadow that never leaves.
~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu
The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: This is the Buddhas' teaching. Not disparaging, not injuring, restraint in line with the Patimokkha, moderation in food, dwelling in seclusion, commitment to the heightened mind: This is the Buddhas' teaching. Dhp 183, 185
~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
~ The Belzer Rabbi
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
~ The Dhammapada
sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same...
~ The Fray
A bad man, though raised to honour, always returns to his natural course, as a dog?s tail, though warmed by the fire and rubbed with oil, retains its form.*
~ The Hitopadesa
Like an earthen pot, a bad man is easily broken, and cannot readily be restored to his former situation; but a virtuous man, like a vase of gold, is broken with difficulty, and easily repaired.
~ The Hitopadesa
Skill in advising others is easily attained by men; but to practise righteousness themselves is what only a few can succeed in doing.
~ The Hitopadesa
Commit a sin twice, and it will not seem to thee a sin.
~ The Talmud
For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.
~ The Talmud
He who can feel ashamed will not readily do wrong.
~ The Talmud
Mention not a blemish which is thy own in detraction of a neighbour.
~ The Talmud
Rather skin a carcass for pay in the public streets than be idly dependent on charity.
~ The Talmud
There is a great difference between one who can feel ashamed before his own soul and one who is only ashamed before his fellow men.
~ The Talmud
Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.
~ The Talmud
Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? "Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel."
~ The Washington Post
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
~ Theodor Adorno
Intelligence is a moral category.
~ Theodor Adorno