Quotes About Ethics

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

While he was alive Peter Jennings did considerable damage to the cause of civilization and human deceny [sic] by his sympathy for Jew-hating terrorists and their supporters.

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's bless'd.

Sympathy of victims and humanity of us question the stronghold of integrity towards justice.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Most of teachers have but one object, viz. to draw their salary. I do not think that a teacher should have no salary. But I think they should earn it first and then think of it.

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.