Quotes About Ethics

It is as great an error to speak well of a worthless man as to speak ill of a good man.

sooner will there exist a body without a shadow than virtue unaccompanied by envy.

Lies don't solve problems it just make it worst ...so liars beware

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

There will come a time when men look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

My body is not a tomb for other creatures.

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

Chi semina virtù fama raccoglie.

Non appena nasce la virtù, nasce contro di lei l'invidia, e farà prima il corpo a perdere la sua ombra che la virtù la sua invidia.

Verrà il tempo in cui l'uomo non dovrà più uccidere per mangiare, ed anche l'uccisione di un solo animale sarà considerato un grave delitto

Who sows virtue reaps honour.

Are people innately altruistic? is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated--for good or ill--if only you find the right levers.

If life on death row is safer than life on the streets, it's hard to believe that the fear of execution is a driving force in a criminal's calculus.

we should keep in mind the difference between sin and tragedy.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong.

It isn't respectable to beg

If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil! If you give your cloak to him who steals your coat, how long will it be, before your shirt and trousers will go also?

Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him.

Everything's got a moral if only you can find it.

The oldest, easiest to swallow idea was that the earth was man's personal property, a combination of garden, zoo, bank vault, and energy source, placed at our disposal to be consumed, ornamented, or pulled apart as we wished.

I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one," Dr. Poblocki said. "When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.