Quotes About Ethics

No matter how you may excel in the art of Karate, and in your scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your behavior and your humanity as observed in daily life.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

I believe that he who has less in life should have more in law.

Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.