Quotes About Ethics

Sin is present in everyone as a nature before it expresses itself in deeds

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.

My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.

Nature supports right action.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

The USA is a beautiful country...when you take the corrupt corporations and their government minions out of the equation.