Quotes About Ethics

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

My brothers and sisters prayers and faith in God does not negate professionalism and dignity of labour.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.

How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the landscape itself?

La conciencia evita cometer atrocidades. Pero las atrocidades cometidas regularmente anulan la conciencia.