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Quotes About Ethics

Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Until you are conscious of your conscience, you are morally unconscious.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Don't change your morality for the people around you, change the people around you with your morality.
~ Donald L. Hicks
The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.
~ Donald L. Hicks
If you believe Life is sacred, you must also believe unnecessary killing is sacrilege.
~ Donald L. Hicks
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
~ Millard Fuller
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
~ Paul Wellstone
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.
~ Gordon Fee
Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.
~ Richard Dooling
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
~ Ayn Rand
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
~ Horace Greeley
Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.
~ John F. Kennedy
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
~ William Sloane Coffin
There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.
~ Elizabeth Joan Smith
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!
~ Pope John Paul II
We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.
~ Leonard F. Peltier
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
~ Epicurus
I want my games to teach a message about life, by presenting situations where the answer isn't a clear yes or no.
~ Hideo Kojima
The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.
~ Clement of Alexandria
Beauty is not just physical. It's about what you stand for, how you live your life.
~ Halle Berry
Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
~ Joseph Pulitzer
I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.
~ Richard Attenborough