Quotes About Ethics

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we're going to do.

There's no way a fighter should fight and put his life on the line, and a promoter makes more money than he makes.

We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

I think computer viruses should count as life.

Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.

I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid.

The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.