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Quotes About Ethics

I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.
~ Bonnie Raitt
I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.
~ Mary Doria Russell
I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.
~ Winston Churchill
I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.
~ James E. Faust
We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.
~ Newt Gingrich
Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope.
~ Paul Simon
With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.
~ Steven Morrissey
If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.
~ William Faulkner
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
~ Rachel Cusk
I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.
~ Jasper Fforde
Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Science is a beautiful gift to humanity we should not distort it.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
~ Sojourner Truth
If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
~ Luc de Clapiers
The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.
~ Immanuel Kant
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
~ Walter Savage Landor
The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.
~ Queen Victoria
Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
~ Alain Badiou
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
~ Albert Einstein