Quotes About Ethics

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.

If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free.

All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.

PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.

You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

No other animal on earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind.

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother

The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

It's up to me if I decide to do what I think is right.

Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn't make mockery of my values. That's what I intended to do. So, that became a very radicalizing proposition for me.

Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.

I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that my life can't be looked at or that I have to be this pristine, isolated figure.

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.