Quotes About Ethics

Someone's lobbing a grenade in your direction; it's not tennis any longer. Point is, honey, you do what you have to do. To stay safe. To keep your family safe. I love the law like my grandma loved scripture. You and I both swore to uphold the law. But a suicide pact we did not agree to. Am I clear?

that the value of an action is measured not by its success or failure, but by the motivation behind it.

The second unwholesome action to avoid is stealing—taking that which doesn't belong to us.

No deed is good that one regrets having done.

The second kind of unwholesome speech is the use of harsh, angry, or aggressive language.

Backbiting and gossip are the third type of unskillful speech. Words of this nature cause disharmony and the loss of friends.

the value of an action is measured not by its success or failure, but by the motivation behind it.

the results of our actions follow us like a shadow, or, to use an ancient image, like the wheel of the oxcart following the foot of the ox.

Do no harm, act for the good, purify the mind." The flowering of all the great traditions of Buddhism derives from the teachings in this one simple verse.

The entire spiritual journey rests on the morality of nonharming. This is the expression of the love and care we feel both for others and for ourselves.

The world is like that boat, tossed by the storms of greed and hatred and fear.

For spiritual practice to develop, it is absolutely essential that we establish a basis of moral conduct in our lives.

The third unskillful action, sexual misconduct

Actions of Speech The next group of unskillful actions revolves around speech.

Lying is the first in this group of unskillful verbal actions.

WE MOVE FROM THE FIRST OF THE TEACHINGS OF ALL THE Buddhas, doing no harm, to the second: acting for the good. This principle of One Dharma, common to all traditions, highlights the positive actions we undertake both for our own welfare and for the benefit and well-being of others.

The second skillful action is morality (sila in Pali). In his praise of Ghatikara above, the Buddha Kassapa reiterates the five basic precepts of nonharming: refraining from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, and taking intoxicants.

this quintessential Zen statement: "There is no right and no wrong, but right is right and wrong is wrong.

There is no right and no wrong, but right is right and wrong is wrong.

Actions rooted in greed, hatred, or ignorance bring unpleasant results.

Don't be so blinded by your morals you fail to do what's right. - Isaac Asimov For the pagan there is no hell. - Rimbaud

The grouper could wait until the gobie was finished removing ectoparasites, then eat it, yet refrains from doing so.

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

Rise above principal and do what's right.