Quotes About Ethics

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

The question grows more troubling with each passing year how much of what yesterday's science fiction regarded as unspeakably dreadful has become today's award-winning research

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.

In medicine, sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission venial.

What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.

I am not a doctor,' I replied, 'I only help those who come to me in desperation. When a man is brought to me naked I do not know his race or allegiance. I will treat the sick, and if you do not allow me to do so, then I will treat no one.

If you are not a Conchie, what are you man?' demanded the Major. After some moments' thought, Francis said, 'I am a human being who does not believe in killing my fellow man for insufficient reason.

I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.

I'd rather be a fool than a vulture feeding off other people.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.

A man who evades his own conscience is a dupe.

The truth exists at the junction between good and bad.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

By two wings is man lifted above earthly things, even by simplicity and purity. Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.

He who shunneth not small faults falleth little by little into greater.

But why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience?

Sometimes my sin is not what I do; it also describes what I don't do when I know I should.

We shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived.

He who shaneth not small faults falleth little by little into greater.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.