Quotes About Ethics

But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.

We do not what we ought;What we ought not, we do;And lean upon the thoughtThat chance will bring us through.

Thou hast no right to bliss.

Be neither saint- nor sophist-led, but be a man!

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

The difficulty for democracy is, how to find and keep high ideals.

philosophers of difference are, in fact, hyperethical and radical political thinkers, concerned with how movements that seek to address marginalization need to become even more ethical, even more radical in their desire to change the status quo in view of justice.

To my mind, the chief conclusion to be drawn from Derrida's analysis is that the human-animal distinction is, strictly speaking, nonsensical. How could a simple (or even a highly refined) binary distinction approach doing justice to the complex ethical and ontological matters at stake here?

How good, and how strong, it is to take a principled position

As Bush told Dan Balz of the Washington Post in the spring of 1999, "There is a role for government. But there is also a role for institutions that are value-laden, value-oriented, and that exist all across America.

Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.

I want you to know, Ruth, that it was impossible to survive our time without doing wrong. It was an evil age. If we had lived in a better time, then we would have been better people.

The teachings in the Visuddhimagga begin with purification of virtue since the completion of the path to liberation rests squarely on the foundation stone of morality. This point cannot be over-emphasized.

Who is this woman who preached of the "web of life" that all creation shares, but who warned that "the earth must not be injured, the earth must not be destroyed"—and that if humans misuse creation, "God will permit creation to punish humanity"?

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much power over themselves as not to oppress; great might is a very great snare to many.

Note, Religion teaches good manners, and obliges us to give honour to those to whom honour is due.

Sin is the corruption or depravation of the sinner, and it is a self-corruption;

We must never be drawn into sin by any thing that man can say or do to us, for it will not justify us to say that we were so drawn in.

Whatever we have in the world, we must see to it that it be honestly come by, for we cannot be truly rich, nor long rich, with that which is not. The

He wrote them in two tables of stone, that they might be preserved from corruption, and might be transmitted pure and entire to posterity, for whose use they were intended, as well as for the present generation. These

The abuse of something good does not diminish the good itself.

I'm not hurting anyone' is another attempt to avoid personal responsibility in a world where everything we think, do, and say affects someone, something, sooner or later. Your actions profoundly affect your inner reality, and sooner or later your inner reality will seek an outer expression through your words and actions or your silence and inaction.

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.