Quotes About Ethics

The true guide of life is to do what is right.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

Living in a way that reflects one's values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.

The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.

Worrying about how you'll be remembered is pointless. Better to try to live your life in such a way that people will respect you while you're still alive.

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'

Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.

It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?

Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.

When you're pro-life, you need to be pro-life for the whole life.

Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us.

There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.