Quotes About Ethics

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul. . . And the little helpless buzzings of honest, liberal, kindly people, aren't they like the thin little noise flies make when they're caught?

When you defile the pleasant streams And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams And cast your spittle in God's face.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

For every inch that is not fool is rogue.

In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin,Before polygamy was made a sin.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

The conscience of a people is their power.

The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn't be. We are our brothers' keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.

I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks...with the leg missing, or with their head off. I have seen the little rib cages.

The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life

Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.

There's no reason to drink cow's milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans, and we should all stop drinking it today.

Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive.

Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.

As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.