Quotes About Ethics

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

The values of life are most important.

The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

I am in favor of an idea that's been around for a number of years, which is to reward people who are willing to give a kidney and save the life of a stranger.

It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

If you rise in life, you have to behave in a certain way. You can go to a strip club if you're a beer-swilling sand shoveler, but if you're the Bishop of Boston, you shouldn't go.

We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.

It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that's one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that's entirely different.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

Life is essentially a question of values.

Every Christian can witness to God in the workplace, not only with words, but above all with an honest life.

It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.