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Quotes About Ethics

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior.
~ Hetty King
The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth.
~ Hugh B. Brown
I have never made an inflammatory statement in my life
~ Ian Paisley
The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
~ J. M. Coetzee
True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
~ Jesse Jackson
I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.
~ Jesse Ventura
There's no political point worth my son's life.
~ Joe Biden
The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.
~ John Barrymore
Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.
~ John Boehner
The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.
~ Cecil Taylor
Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.
~ Charles William Eliot
My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life.
~ Deepak Chopra
Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity Do Justice Learn from the World Community Nurture People Cherish the Natural Order Non-Conform Freely.
~ Doris Janzen Longacre
So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.
~ Edward Zigler
Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Since I was a little kid, I was against fur. I never wore fur in my life.
~ Elisabetta Canalis
A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.
~ F. Lee Bailey
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
~ Abe Fortas
The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.
~ African Spir
Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.
~ Albert Einstein
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life
~ Albert Schweitzer