Quotes About Ethics

Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

Every human being is called to solidarity in a world battling between life and death

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

Reason is the life of the law.

The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.

To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

I wanted to be a veterinarian for about a week of my life when I was a kid. But I found out about the whole euthanasia thing and I said, I can't commit to that, sorry!

To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.

As was his language so was his life.

Of two evils, choose neither.

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.