Quotes About Ethics

I have known kings and criminals. I prefer criminals. They cheat, steal and betray, but at least you don't have to worship them while they do it.

Luther describes how backbiters are like hyenas or dogs who dig up stinking human corpses, pullulating with decay and full of worms, and bite into them—"Ugh, what a dreadful monster the backbiter is!

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.

Only a coward would send his children to their deaths in order to save his own life.

Every time you compromise, something inside your spirit dies a little

Evil is always with us. The balance is all.

Everything we do, talí, we do with honor.

It is better to lack the semblance of honor but possess it than to possess the semblance and lack the honor.

They have a saying among them: 'When whores are few, a boy will do.

Anything we do, talí, we do with honor.

Through civil disobedience, India could free itself from tyranny while preserving a commitment to the peaceful ethics of all its major religions.

By "global ethics," the Dalai Lama means that all people must take personal responsibility for ensuring human rights, fairness, equality, and environmental protection, regardless of their belief system.

By "global ethics," the Dalai Lama means that all people must take personal responsibility for ensuring human rights, fairness, equality, and environmental protection, regardless of their belief system. He believes that people need not embrace Buddhism to live good lives. Often he says that practicing Buddhism is unnecessary. Everyone can find the keys to a purposeful and moral life within their own culture and religious framework.

His message was that educators must find a way to teach compassion and moral values apart from a religious context.

It was one thing to pursue your passion at any cost and quite another to make someone else pay the bill.

SECRET #32 You don't need a thanks to know you've done the right thing.

Juvenal, another non-Christian writer of Rome, tells us that "fools seek revenge, philosophers forgive.

the heartless practice of exposing unpromising infants

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it. Albert Einstein

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

Svatko je potencijalni Frankenstein, s nevjero­jatnom mo?i mijenjanja živog svijeta oko sebe. Na kraju, koliko nas odašilje uglavnom pozitivne misli?