Quotes About Ethics

There must be a priority of values in all our lives.

He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.

Good character improves every aspect of a person's life.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

What is left when honor is lost?

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.