Quotes About Ethics

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

The worker faithful to the well has neither the intention, or time, to violate the name and the service of others.

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.

I am inspired by honest people who don't cheat others. To me the famous are those who are kind to fellow human beings and dedicate their life to charity.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do?

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.