Quotes About Ethics

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

Saving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.

Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.

None of us are either all good or all bad - we're all somewhere in between - but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the dark.

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

A life must be saved as long as it can be no matter whose it is.

Abortion is in violation of God-given life.