Quotes About Ethics

Small creatures die because larger creatures are hungry. How superior to this human confusion of greed and creed, blood and fire.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Responsibility educates.

There's nothing more worth doing than trying to be a human in an increasingly dehumanized world.

Like the Artha-shastra, but perhaps for the opposite reason, the Kama-sutra is wary of nuns; it advises a married woman not to hang out with "any woman who is a beggar, a religious mendicant, a Buddhist nun, promiscuous, a juggler, a fortune-teller, or a magician who uses love-sorcery worked with roots (4.1.9).

Nonviolence is an ideal propped up against the cultural reality of violence.

The circularity of karma is explicitly set from the time of creation: You must be what you are; you cannot change your qualities.

whether or not people get the gods that they deserve, they tend to get the gods (and demons) that their animals deserve—

Kautilya makes Machiavelli look like Mother Teresa

I'm afraid truth isn't the only thing that matters in law, Suzannah. And out in the real world, it doesn't matter at all.

There's a fight going on inside of everyone between a good wolf and a bad wolf, but the one you feed is the one who wins

When you enforce virtue, you deny a woman's right to make an unacceptable choice with her own body. This conflict is old wine in new bottles; it is nothing less than the age-old battle between freedom and control.

Always, Judaism stresses deed before creed. Your actions, not your beliefs, are the true measure of your character...Judaism teaches that whether a person is considerate of others is as important as whether he prays daily. We are the sum of our actions, and most of our actions are small deeds, not large gestures.

How Do I Decide? A Contemporary Jewish Approach to What's Right and Wrong, Rabbi Roland B. Gittlesohn's

Just because you're fighting evil doesn't mean you're good. And just because you're doing evil doesn't mean you're bad. You end up with the conclusion that there is no ultimate right or wrong. It's all shades of gray.

I'm not saying that the conscience of the international community is asleep. I'm saying that the conscience doesn't exist at all.

For us, people who are not privileged enough to have the freedom to be good people, we have to make some bad choices and do some evil things. That's shitty, but it is what it is.

I think that when you see a woman who has sex power but chooses not to use it, she is someone you can trust. -'Cass

Humans exist but humanity doesn't.

We live in a world where you don't know who to trust anymore because most people are not honest and do anything for a couple of dollars bills.