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Quotes About Ethics

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.
~ J. G. Farrell
Hillary Clinton's life has been filled with corruption but nobody cares.
~ Jackie Mason
Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters".
~ James Marcus
L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.
~ Jimmy Fallon
The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?
~ Jonah Goldberg
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
~ Joseph Joubert
Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
~ Joseph Joubert
To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.
~ Laozi
Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.
~ Mark Twain
My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.
~ Mary McCarthy
Creating life simply to destroy it is wrong.
~ Mel Gibson
Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.
~ Michael Josephson
Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.
~ Peter King
If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.
~ Peter Singer
Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.
~ Philip K. Dick
Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.
~ Pleasant Rowland
It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.
~ Pope Francis
I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.
~ Rahul Dravid
The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.
~ Rene Rivkin