Quotes About Ethics

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.

I don't want to get away with murder! I'd have to live with that for the rest of my life. I would never want to live with killing somebody.

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.

I made one decision in my life based on money and I swore I would never do it again.

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.

I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.

I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life.

The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.

Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

As a parent, do the right thing and you don't get in trouble. If you lead a charmed life, you better act like it.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.