Quotes About Ethics

Some people have a way about them that seems to say: If I have only one life to live, let me live it as a jerk.

Keeping away from all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impurities.

Tsze-Kung asked, Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life? The Master said, Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.

The lie is a condition of life.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Each person must live their life as a model for others

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature

I know that a life has high value, but our rights, our independence,our honour have a higher value than life

Everyone plays the game of life, but not everyone follows the rules.