Quotes About Ethics

We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement

In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average people one should combine magnanimity and strictness.

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

When a person tells others "Be good," he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.

People always tend to chose what is best for them. They pretend to be unselfish, all so that they can feel good about themselves. Even that really is a selfish decision.

My idea of what God should be is a good guy. I don't think there's any good in killing people in the name of your God.