Quotes About Ethics

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

I've killed lots of Arabs in my life - and there's no problem with that.

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.

Sometimes life is not about what u want to do but what u ought to do

People only mention it's a free country if they're doing something shitty.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity

Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn't show yet.

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.

Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life.

If I've learned any one lesson from life, it's this: If you don't stand for something, you will stand for anything.