Quotes About Ethics

Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.

Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.

I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.

What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.

We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out of favor with a ruling elite.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.

One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.

Remember, you may choose your sin, but you cannot chose the consequences.

One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.

It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .