Quotes about Ethical Dilemmas
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
We are inconsistent, said Mother Teresa, to care about violence, and to care about hungry children in places like India and Africa, and yet not care about the millions who are killed by the deliberate choice of their own mothers.
— Philip Yancey
It is almost impossible to do good without wisdom. All the good intentions in the world are likely to be worthless without wisdom. Many of the horrors of the twentieth century were supported by people with good intentions who lacked wisdom.
— Dennis Prager
We live in a world in which people can do unbelievably beautiful or unbelievably horrible things to other people. And if those horrible acts argue against the existence of God, then the beautify acts must argue for God's existence.
— Dennis Prager
there are few if any issues where all the truth and all the right and all the angels are on one side.
— John F. Kennedy
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
— Samuel Johnson
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
— Albert Camus
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
— Albert Schweitzer
You can't drive a bayonet through a chap's body in cold blood, he remembered him saying. And you can't go in for an exam. without drinking, said Edward.
— Virginia Woolf
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.
— Charles Colson
It is not because right principles have been violated, that they are to be abandoned.
— Thomas Paine
find God in the willingness of so many people to do the right thing, even when the right thing is difficult, expensive, or unappreciated, and to reject the wrong thing no matter how tempting or profitable.
— Harold S. Kushner