Quotes About Ethics

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.

Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers

I am a rebel by birth... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

The first law of humanity is not to kill your children.

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.