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Quotes About Ethics

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.
~ Brian Jacques, Mossflower
The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics
Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
~ Salvatore J. Cordileone
... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.
~ Albert Camus
The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Honor modesty more than your life.
~ Aeschylus
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
~ Alan Paton
I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge in a lot of luxury.
~ Alison Eastwood
The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.
~ Arsene Wenger
I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn't, either
~ Art Modell
Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.
~ Ayn Rand
If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God
~ Blaise Pascal
I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
If you can't protect life, then how can you protect liberty?
~ Ron Paul
A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.
~ Stanley Fish
You're never allowed to step on people to get ahead, but you can step over them if they're in your way.
~ Star Jones
Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time.
~ Stephen Bier, Jr.
A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.
~ Stephen Covey
The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.
~ Terence McKenna
Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.
~ Thomas Brooks
If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.
~ Thornton T. Munger
If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.
~ Timothy Keller
Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.
~ Timothy Keller