Quotes About Ethics

I don't fear for a physical death, but when my conscience dies, that is a real death

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.

In their capacity to feel pain and fear, a pig is a dog is a bear is a boy.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.

The black­est des­pair that can take hold of any soci­ety is the fear that liv­ing hon­estly is futile.

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

Keep conscience clear, then never fear.

Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.