Quotes About Ethics

Why? Because I played god with you? Baby girl, that's what I do. And not lightly, either." He thought about that for a second. "Well, yes, sometimes lightly. You know what they say about all work and no play.

Rama looks on as Lakshmana disfigures Surpanakha but then, he is maryada purushottam. The ideal man allows other women to be disfigured and, constantly suspicious of her chastity, neglects his own wife!

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. —Christopher Dawson, The Judgment of Nations (1942)

It's pointless to defeat evil by destroying life.

It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green."Sarah Agnes Prine

I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out.

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

Just say no to pillaging.

How much wickedness could you do in the service of good before it turned into pure evil?

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics," Ford said, "then something is the matter with politics.

Edith's father had always told her that if you wanted to measure the character of a man, then watch how he dealt with his servants.

When will you human monsters stop twisting innocent people into beasts and putting the world at risk?

A good end cannot sanctify evil means, nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.

The CEO of Monsanto had been disemboweled alive.

Have you any right

Most of us can stay away from doing wrong but few of us take the challenge of doing right

Most of us can stay away from doing wrong, but few of us take on the challenge of doing right.

Ironically, moral relativists often even pride themselves on being morally superior to others.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

Many of us don't even know what it means to have a Christian perspective on our work. Oh, we know that being a Christian means being ethical on the job- as Saly put it, "no lying and cheating." But the work itself is typically defined in secular terms as bringing home a paycheck, climbing the career ladder, building a professional reputation.

For when moral convictions are reduced to arbitrary preferences, then they can no longer be debated rationally.

Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to "humbleness." But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.

Lived out consistently, postmodernism leads to complicity with evil and injustice.

In short, their practice contradicts what they profess. They are trapped in cognitive dissonance.