Quotes About Ethics

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

there is no crime of which I cannot conceive myself guilty.

Ein guter Mensch in seinem dunklen Drange Ist sich des rechten Weges wohl bewusst.

Part of that power which would Do evil constantly and constantly does good.

Conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.