Quotes About Ethics

However ignorant a person may be, he or she can always moralize. And it is the propensity to moralize that takes up most of the space for public discussion in contemporary democracy.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. PORTIA, IN The Merchant of Venice, I

One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer (386).

One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murder.

I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That's a sin.

I never wanted to safe... I wanted to be good.

As ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. Let the fruits of the spirit be manifested in thy life day by day. Be not afraid to just be kind, just be patient, just be longsuffering even with those that would speak ill of thee. For what glory hast thou if thou dost good only to those that do good to thee? 835-1

Cayce told one individual, "Know that thoughts are things, and as their currents run they may become crimes or miracles." (2419-1)

Do you know what makes a human being decent? Fear. And therein lies the problem. None of you has anything left to fear anymore.

The only distinction between him and the monsters he'd taken down was the legitimacy of being paid by the winning side. Or

the march of technology isn't to be seen in the act of me hijacking Logan's car, but in me knowing that I had to do it.

When had doing the right thing stopped being the automatic option and become something that had to be worked at instead?

If there were a button that would end the world, and that button were right in front of me, I would have smashed it so hard at that moment. I often thought about a button like that, and when I did, I always knew that I'd push it.

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace. - Baba

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

When you kill a man, you steal a life, Baba said. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?

it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.

Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.

When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.

I see the creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing..and you will find all manner of dishonor. Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.

I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing, Monsieur Boustouler, and you will find all manner of dishonor. Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.

When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.