Quotes About Ethics

People with no human values are worse than zombies.

Turning your back on nothing and walking away is not disloyal, it's self respect.

Pride and integrity are some ingredients that define respect. Don't compromise them for short lived attention.

By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.

We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.

We must stop treating the environment possessively, and as an expendable commodity.

Rejecting predatory capitalism in America is a way to respect and honor America.

While the law cannot force a person to be moral or tolerant, through the law we can demand respect and expect equality.

Politics is a romantic search for the good and the true and the beautiful.

A friendship with a woman is not a sin. (It's) a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your wife, that is a sin.

Audubon considered it a bad day if he didn't shoot a hundred birds. "It's amazing that his name has become synonymous with conservation.

Banks frown when employees torch the home of their principal account holder.

It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take their life away for fashion.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.

Do not be a perpetrator. Do not be a bystander. Do not be a victim.

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.

sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

if the speed of an aero equals zero, the aero is motionless; if human liberty is equal to zero, man does not commit any crime. That is clear. The way to rid man of criminality is to rid him of freedom.

El deber y el crimen jamás pueden coincidir en una misma cosa.

Alçak gönüllülük erdem, gurursa kusurdur. "Biz" tanr?dan, "Ben" ÅŸeytandan gelir.

There were two in paradise and the choice was offered to them: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness.

All their Immanuel Kants together couldn't do it! It didn't enter the heads of all their Kants to build a system of scientific ethics, that is, ethics based on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.