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Quotes About Ethics

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase "Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben" ("reverence for life").
~ Albert Schweitzer
Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.
~ Anna Thomas
Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.
~ Ayn Rand
Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.
~ Ayn Rand
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.
~ Chris Christie
You have a choice in life very often whether you do good or you feel good.
~ Dennis Prager
The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.
~ Don Richardson
The high cost of low living.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
I have no wish to take life, not even human life
~ George Orwell
I rest their case. I'm Pro-Life.
~ George W. Bush
If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.
~ Gerry Lindgren
We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.
~ Halford Luccock
To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
~ Harold Ford, Jr.
The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it--to do what I think is right and what I think is good.
~ Jaye Davidson
There's a lot of Democrats, myself included, who have supported right-to-life.
~ Joe Manchin
A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
~ Josiah Johnson Hawes
Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.
~ Katy Butler
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It would be fair in terms of justice that those who believe in 'Life After Death' live much less than those who do not believe in such a thing!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If someone kills you, they will deprive you of life, but they can never deprive you of your right to life.
~ Michael Badnarik
This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.
~ Michael Moore
The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.
~ Michael Pollan
Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.
~ Nat Hentoff