Quotes About Ethics

God does not hold our environment accountable for our behavior; he holds us accountable. (p79)

An it harm none, do what ye will.

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful.

I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws.

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad

Some people are just like that, Abigail. If it's good for them, then it's good. If it's bad for them, then it's bad. They rearrange morality to suit their ambitions. Nat simply

People pay for that they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And the pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. - James Baldwin

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't." (145)

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.

A philosophy of work is essential if we would be whole men, holy men, healthy men, joyous men. A certain amount of goods is necessary for a man to lead a good life, and we have to make that kind of society where it is easier for men to be good.

The strong could make their own law, live their own lives; in fact, they were beyond good and evil. What was good and what was evil? It is easy enough to stifle conscience for a time. The satisfied flesh has its own law.

I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right.

evil is, after all, only a deficiency of goodness.

Which do you value more, life or honor? Honor,...because everyone must die, but honor lasts forever.

If you think your honor demands you kill every dog that barks at you...you will only find yourself spending all your time chasing dogs. There is no honor in that.

Money isn't the root of all evil; the love of money isn't the root of all evil; the NEED for money is the root of all evil.

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

scientists are using advanced genomic theories and technologies to create a new racial science that claims to divide the human species into natural groups without the taint of racism.

Some people base their sense of ethics on what they've been told that God, or their church, or their parents, or their culture, believes to be okay or not okay. They believe that being good consists of obedience to laws set down by a power greater than themselves.

In his lectures to young communists in Germany during the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, psychologist Wilhelm Reich theorized that the suppression of sexuality was essential to an authoritarian government. Without the imposition of antisexual morality, he believed, people would be free from shame and would trust their own sense of right and wrong. They would be unlikely to march to war against their wishes or to operate death camps.

A flowerchild in a 1967 interview made the most succinct description of ethical sluthood we've ever seen : "We believe it's okay to have sex with anybody you love... and we believe in loving everybody. You are already whole.".

Sex is for pleasure, a complete and worthwhile goal in and of itself. People have sex because it feels very good, and then they feel good about themselves. The worthiness of pleasure is one of the core values of ethical sluthood.

Many of us find that the more we play, the closer we want to come to the gray area between "enough" and "too much," between consent and nonconsent. These desires may grow so strong that we feel that we're craving genuinely nonconsensual play – that we really do want to kidnap a stranger or whip a slave or punish a child.