Quotes About Ethics

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.

nobody ever said doin' the right thing was easy. Simple, yeah, but not easy. Rusty

We're cutting corners, maximizing short-term profits

that horrible acts are caused, in part, by our very tendency to assume that some people are naturally evil.

Women deprived of decency are the damdest creatures that ever were borned.

The fact that you are possessed by a demon does not mean you must become evil. Being evil is a choice, just as being good is a choice. If you let the demon take over, it's because you choose to.

Karma had everyone's address

At least she's not guilty of integrity, and that's more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself.