Quotes About Ethics

Burnaby wasn't a Christian but he behaved like a Christian is supposed to behave which made Colborne, a Christian, uncomfortable.

It was a principle of hers that you must never say anything about another person you would not say in that person's presence.

It is not anything to be ashamed of. That is my opinion. Edna Mae and Luther felt differently of course. To them, it would be like murder. But I think if the mother is married, and there is a father—and the doctor suggests it—it is nothing like abortion which is plain murder and should be outlawed.

To destroy evil we must destroy the being which evil inhabits, even if it is ourselves.

Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.

Remember that we cannot judge the moral value of any action by how we feel. Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

Don't ever flirt with sin.

Our conscience works like an inward monitor that beeps when we step out of line.

Don't use people to get money and things, but be committed to using money and material goods to bless people. Rich people can do a lot of good for society if they are willing.

There is nothing wrong about having feelings, as long as you do what is right.

We need to be like the ant. We need to be the kind of people who are self-motivated and self-disciplined, those who do what is right because it is right, not because someone may be looking or because someone is making us do it.

Jamás escoja hacer lo malo solo porque los demás lo hagan! ¡Sea un ejemplo a seguir en lugar de alguien que incluso usted mismo se avergüence de conocer!

We are in an age of exponentially changing technologies. Ergo, we are in an age of exponentially changing ethics.

some core ethical-spiritual notions are passed on, evolve, and are repackaged and transmuted. Gradually a series of legitimate core concepts spread globally. So we see a gradual convergence on a set of principles common to major religions, and common to nonbelievers.

As religion starts to mix with politics, we have a culture that allows us to fall behind what were previously third world nations, because we are now treating science the way we did sex in the 1950s, banning or burying evolution theories and research into promising lifesaving areas such as stem-cell research.

No one is keeping a score. We're all just trying to do the right thing.

There's a fine line between criminality and genius

You know, sometimes the right thing isn't the thing you think is right. It's the wrong thing you're afraid to think of.

Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of "slave morality.

Those who commit acts of violence are surely responsible for them; they are not dupes or mechanisms of an impersonal social force, but agents with responsibility. On the other hand, these individuals are formed, and we would be making a mistake if we reduced their actions to purely self-generated acts of will or symptoms of individual pathology of 'evil'.

Are we not, ethically speaking, obligated to stop its (violence) further dissemination, to consider our role in instigating it, and to forment and cultivate another sense of a culturally and religiously diverse global political culture?

If the interdiction against killing rests on the presumption that all lives are valuable—that they bear value as lives, in their status as living beings—then the universality of the claim only holds on the condition that value extends equally to all living beings. This means that we have to think not only about persons, but animals; and not only about living creatures, but living processes, the systems and forms of life.

Consider what an amoral, unprincipled cynicI am-think of all the improvements you could make to my character.