Quotes About Ethics

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.

I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.

As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling. Translation: suicide counseling.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

How they treat you defines them. How you treat others defines you.

The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.

The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.

So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.

It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.

I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.

...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.