Quotes About Ethics

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.

We do many things we shouldn't in the course of a life. It doesn't make them right or wrong, just a part of who we are.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

Never take more out of life, than you intend to give back.

I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.

The white flower of a blameless life.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint