Quotes About Ethics

Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

Being a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism.

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.

We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

If you are honest, you will live life safely. But if you are dishonest, you will get hurt.

Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.

Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?

I don't think all life is precious. I know people say that all the time, "Life is precious." I think some life is precious, and some life is just a waste of protoplasm. Start over.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs in my life and I never will. Over the course of my career I have taken hundreds of drugs tests and every single one has been negative.

Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

Saving a life overrides territories.

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.