Quotes About Ethics

If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life.

sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

The TV commercials, which are endless and fairly crass, gave birth to Brock, the bad-lawyer character in Razor Girl. In real life you can find even sleazier examples than him.

We are the custodians of life's meaning.

If there is life, then I believe we should do nothing to disturb that life. Mars then, belongs to the Martians, even if they are microbes.

Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life.

If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute.

The (atomic) soul is mortal, and the best life is the one with the least pain and the most pleasure.

Be purity of life the test, leave to the heart, to heaven the rest.

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

You have to maintain integrity at all times during your life.

It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

As long as you're living right, then you don't have to worry about what people see.

science," for the Aristotelian, is an organized body of demonstrated truths concerning the things falling within some domain and their causes. Hence, not only physics, chemistry, biology, and the like, but also metaphysics, ethics, natural theology, and indeed the philosophy of nature itself (since, for the Aristotelian-Thomistic thinker, these fields of inquiry rest on rational arguments and analysis no less than physics, chemistry, etc. do) count as sciences.

Better in most contexts (such as the present one) once again to acquiesce to standard contemporary usage and classify fields like metaphysics, ethics, natural theology, philosophy of nature, etc. as branches of philosophy rather than of "science.

Progressivism is essentially about privatizing morality and socializing the costs of immorality, in such a way that big business can profit from the former and big government can profit from the latter.

without God we are left with a choice of succumbing to megalomania or erotomania.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

That could be a nice bonus to our incredible integrity-filled decision to keep him alive at the end.

So when you see Captain Picard or Commander Sisko decide that logic, reason, and communication are the way to solve problems and not turn to violence, then we were telling something to our audience that needs to be said on a regular basis.

that good people fought valiantly for disgraceful causes. . . . But by joining the Confederate war machine, all of them, irrespective of their personal motivations, advanced their nation's political agenda—the perpetuation and territorial expansion of human bondage and the misery that it entailed."9