Quotes About Ethics

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury

The sphere of influence is noticed if your actions reflect the virtues of the kingdom

It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.

We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be.

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age

Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you've probably already done something very, very wrong.

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.