Quotes About Ethics

You cannot be passive in life, or in time the natural man will undermine your efforts to live worthily. You become what you do and what you think about. Lack of character leads one under pressure to satisfy appetite or seek personal gain. You cannot successfully bolster a weak character with the cloak of pretense.

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day. Righteous character is a precious manifestation of what you are becoming. Righteous character is more valuable than any material object you own, any knowledge you have gained through study, or any goals you have attained no matter how well lauded by mankind.

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

They eat every part of them, including the testicles. I don't eat the testicles. I don't want anybody eating on mine, so I won't eat on anybody's. I eat the hams, ribs, and shoulders. I enjoy them. Once you start eating testicles, it's like you've gone cannibalistic.

How many wild animals can be sustainably killed for the many millions of pets that people keep?

The three social influences that we have emphasized—information, peer pressure, and priming—can easily be enlisted by private and public nudgers. As we will see, both business and governments can use the power of social influence to promote many good (and bad) causes.

But while you're abroad lead respectable lives; Love your neighbors, and welcome--but don't love their wives!

Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

Indeed, as we have seen, the drama and tragedy of the moral life lies in the fact that most human disagreement is between opposing goods rather than between right and wrong.

No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.

My principles wouldn't allow it.

Yet Conscience is a nobleman, the best in us, and a friend.

Morality fell with society

People are not punished for their deeds, but by them~

He who lives under it and is disloyal to it is a traitor to the human race everywhere.

Always let your conscience be your guide is advice of doubtful value. Conscience must be, among other things, a list of sayings, an anthology of quotations and precepts. Where did they come from, and who first wrote them on my empty slate, and why?

When I fume in the tollbooth line, I am not a good person to whom a bad thing is happening. I am a liar who is getting what he deserves.

What should we mean by intelligence? It is not a question of fact, for there is no fact; it is a moral question. There is a shouldness in it.

Moral and ethical questions have no validity in Total War except in as far as their maintenance or destruction contributes towards ultimate Victory. Expediency, not morality, is the sole criterion of human conduct in Total War.' Dennis Wheatley, Total War, 1941

So there is some justice in this world, though not a lot.

What conveys a right, and why should humans, alone on all the planet, have them?

It came from Buddhism, the Four Immeasurables. "There are four good things worth practicing. Being kind toward everything alive. Staying level and steady. Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.

But the need for justice is like ownership or love. Feeding it only makes it grow.