Ethics Quotes
Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.
Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren’t is because you have a conscience.
It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.
You believe stealing is wrong, but if your family was starving and could not afford bread, wouldn't you say it’s okay to steal a loaf to feed them?
If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them instead, would you kill them, knowing it was an effective way to save your loved one?
What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?
Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.
One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things
for that men have been good does not suffice for them to continue being good, unless one cares about it to the end.
A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.
The character of God is an unchanging Northstar five which to find our way through a world of moral complexity.
If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all people.
Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.
Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.
In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ...
Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.
The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.
One's interest or need does not annul other's right.
Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future.
You can't do a good deal with a bad guy. The dishonesty tax is too high and is not something you will factor into your side of the equation.
Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun...and you'll have no regrets.
When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.
Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can’t speak for itself, it’s not truth.
In the newspapers the row about the prospect of genetically modified food raged on, and yet here were consumers effectively demanding lambs with four back legs.
It's frustrating to witness how popular Fairtrade bananas, coffee and tea have become with shoppers and supermarkets while plenty of unfair trade goes on, largely unnoticed, in our own back yard.
You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.Humans don't like that.They view it as a sign of ingratitude.I never asked anyone to feed me.That doesn't seem to matter to them.
Believing or not makes no difference to the Absolute of Things That Be. But it does to you. For you shall live and die accordingly. A wise person, or a fool. Choose.
Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.
Government scientists are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.
I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama’s government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing rise of it.
The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.
The legal system has been designed by governments and corporations to protect them from the common people.
I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good.
If you can cull an animal, or kill a human, and sleep well, does not mean you are any more well than a sick animal.
I find it very sad that by the time corporate science realizes the value of nature, that it may be too late
True morals are a priceless thing that possesses the highest value and can never be bought or sold at any cost.
407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.
Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.
Don't just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you'll know, you did the right thing even if it works out wrong.
