Quotes About Ethics

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart.

I realize that I am expressing a concept that is hard for anyone who is not Sicilian or a mafioso to grasp...A man of honor...must always tell the truth.

Cehennem korkusuna, polis korkusuna, ceza korkusuna dayal? bir iyilik, iyilik say?lmaz — bu korkakl?ktan ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir. Ödül, övgü ya da cennet beklentisine ba?l? iyilik, rü?vetçili?e girer. Günümüz ahlâk? çocuklar? korkakla?t?rmaktad?r çünkü kendisi ya?amdan korkutmaktad?r. S?k?düzenden geçirilen ö?rencilerin 'iyili?i' asl?nda i?te budur.

When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!

For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.

The trade-off seems like a no-brainer. Would you rather be bribed during your hospital stay with made-to-order omelets or would you rather be, for example, not dead?

Liars lie to others and they lie to themselves without even the concept of lying arising in their minds because this concept doesn't exist for them. There is no judgment, remorse, guilt, worry, or condemnation because lying is not a right or wrong thing. It just is. An axiomatic "Given." To

let your verdict be so emphatic it will circle the globe as a reminder to all men everywhere that force of any kind has no place in this world, including the world of business.

That man has always lied, to himself and to others, is indisputable. He has lied for the sheer fun of it—the fun of exercising this astounding gift of being able to "say what is not so," creating by his word a world for which he alone is responsible. Also, he has lied in self-defense: the lie is a weapon. It is the preferred weapon of the underdog and the weakling.

If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him well enough for the act to have impact. No death should be like nose blowing. Death is important enough that it should affect the person who causes it.

My paper was a direct discussion and comparison of half-a-dozen ethical systems, concentrating on what seemed to me to be their flaws. I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were *right* and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions

A country whose population gets its living by cheating is a bad country.

See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.

When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act We do not know.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less, it grows feeble and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

America is great because America is good. If America ever ceases to be good it will cease to be great.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

Suppose you want your child to grow into someone who is (a) ethical, (b) able to sustain healthy relationships, (c) intellectually curious, and (d) fundamentally content with him- or herself. Anything you do with your children on a regular basis, then, should be evaluated in light of your ultimate goals.

the question is not whether more flies can be caught with honey than with vinegar, but why the flies are being caught in either case—and how this feels to the fly.

What we are is nothing other than what we do