Quotes About Ethics

If pain is too bad to be executed by everybody, and seen by everybody, is it not because it is too bad?

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

Ducking ponds where dogs chased ducks were popular amusements at parks, and sometimes, to increase the fun, an owl would be tied to the duck's back, which caused it to dive in terror until one or both of the birds died.

Perhaps a woman has a different kind of measuring stick. For when it might be acceptable, or even necessary, to commit a murder.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

It's a sad reflection on society how many people are shocked by honesty... and how few by dishonesty.

Mankind is close to savagery and must live by rules. If not, we would sink into our own animal nature and perish.

And yet, in the words of Immanuel Kant: Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

He wrote, 'Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

A good basic guideline for our speech (in relation to Ethical Conduct) is to reflect whether what we are saying is both true and useful. There may be times when we are honest in what we say, but our words are too brutal or harsh. And there may be other times when we are deliberately being kind with the words we choose, but what we are saying is not totally true.

Serving the truth comes down simply to living life from the place of positive intentions. It means doing the right thing even when everything and everyone in society is telling you to ignore, supress, or abandon the path of nonviolence, understanding and care.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Everyone's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

The person who is defined by integrity understands that everything they do is a statement about who they are as a person.

Improving upon nature is the very essence of plant breeding, and so it goes to the heart of one of the central debates of the human condition: the relationship between humanity and nature and the degree to which the human race has a right (or indeed a responsibility) to change plant life for its own ends.

It's not about what makes you feel better or worse. If it's the right thing to do and you know it, you should do it.