Quotes About Ethics

Learn the rules when you go abroad," Luca said forcefully. "And then live by them.

Often to do what's right you first have to do what's wrong.

You're frighteningly advanced, so it's comforting to know you put so much emphasis on ethics. They are so easy to abandon in times of war.

Sometimes you have to do what's wrong in order to do what's right.

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

affect regulation and addictions. Dr. Jurist has served on the Neuropsychiatry service at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia campus, and on the Ethics committees of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and now of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Do not become what you dispise.

Do not become what you despise.

The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.

The study of reasons for opinions is at the centre of philosophy.

In my judgment, we suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful or slanderous statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.

The further down the Catholic Church hierarchy one looks, the more brave and principled behavior one finds.

They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for fish, why didn't they breed them to live longer, to live as long as a man?

I think there should be tribunals for social cruelty as there are for physical assault. Calculated cuts in the first degree. Snobicide or its reverse.

there was nothing really more important other than treating animals and people with decency and respect—

Jack knew that what Lloyd meant was more than a warrior's creed, it was a reminder that we are entrusted with certain souls, and that we are beholden in a broader sense, as people, to take care of others.

was more than a warrior's creed, it was a reminder that we are entrusted with certain souls, and that we are beholden in a broader sense, as people, to take care of others.

What is evil? What do you think it is? She didn't think for more than a second. She tossed her loose gray hair off the side of her face and said, "Impediment to Being.

In a Godless universe, what is the difference between doing unto others that we would wish them to do unto us, and merely appearing to do unto others that we would wish them to do unto us? The answer, alas, is that if there is no God who knows the secrets of our hearts, it is all too easy to appear to be good, and even to do formally good deeds, all of which are empty of real goodness.

Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.

The question should not be "What would Jesus do?" but rather, more dangerously, "What would Jesus have me do?" The onus is not on Jesus but on us, for Jesus did not come to ask semidivine human beings to do impossible things. He came to ask human beings to live up to their full humanity; he wants us to live in the full implication of our human gifts, and that is far more demanding.

The question should not be 'What would Jesus do?' but rather, and more dangerously, 'What would Jesus have me do?'...As Mark Twain is said to have remarked, 'It is not what I don't understand in the Bible that troubles me; it is what is perfectly clear that does.

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