Quotes About Ethics

Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.

The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself.

Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.

Life to me is just so precious. I fail to see the wrong in keeping someone alive who's still got quality of life even if it's only for a few months.

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.

My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: "Whatever you do in life, be a good one."

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Life once conceived, must be protected with the utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.

You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.