Quotes About Ethics

Your personal devil tries three classical approaches : a threat, a promise, and an attack on your weak side.

It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

In a war, the first casualty is human dignity. Your

Si mucha gente piensa que una cosa está bien, es correcta, entonces esa cosa pasa a estar bien y ser correcta.

Good & Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more ang nothing less.

The World's a dangerous place. It doesn't matter where you are, your'e always at risk of being approached by people who have no scruples about attacking, destroying, killing. And we never learn how to defend ourselves. We're all in the hands of those powerful than us.

It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil,...It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

If I have a handful of silver it is because I work and my wife works, and we do not, as some do, sit idling over a gambling table or gossiping on doorsteps never swept, letting the fields grow to weeds and our children go half-fed! (Buck, 65)

To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others.

None of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself.

We must have this rule, for there are those whose hearts are so hard that they will come and buy this rice that is given for the poor--for a penny will not feed any man like this--and they will carry the rice home to feed to their pigs for slop. And the rice is for men and not for pigs (Buck, 105).

We must save ourselves by doing what is godlike and we will become godlike.

the superior man leads not by violence or by coarse physical acts but by the pure intelligence of a wise mind.

What is the conscience? It is the most highly developed part of the human being, the core of the spirit, the most sensitive, the most tender.

Yuan could not for his life say, "This man is rich and evil, and this man is poor and good," and so he was spoiled for any cause-making, however great the cause.

Yes, you paid money for me, she answered, but that does not make me yours. A human creature cannot be bought whole.

This seems right to them today and that tomorrow and they do not know that one man's mind cannot say what is the true right for another. No, in their pride of a little learning they rush out to do evil

Yes, their ancients had taught them that no good man would be a soldier and that the warlike man was the least of men and not to be respected, and so they had all believed.

A headline-grabbing 2005 British study revealed that girls aged six to twelve enjoyed torturing, mutilating, and microwaving their Barbies nearly as much as they liked dressing them up for the prom. What

NOT CAUSING HARM obviously includes not killing or robbing or lying to people. It also includes not being aggressive—not being aggressive with our actions, our speech, or our minds. Learning not to cause harm to ourselves or others is a basic Buddhist teaching on the healing power of nonaggression. Not harming ourselves or others in the beginning, not harming ourselves or others in the middle, and not harming ourselves or others in the end is the basis of enlightened society.

The third reminder is karma: every action has a result. One could give a whole seminar on the law of karma. But fundamentally, in our everyday life, it's a reminder that it's important how we live.

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.

Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only hurt only you and no one else, then the path of liberation is open.