Quotes about Ethics

The unprecedented powers that science now makes available must be accompanied by unprecedented levels of ethical focus and concern by the scientific community—as well as the sort broadly based public education into the importance of science and democracy.

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.

Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.

We will receive the fruits of any act we have done, whether wholesome or unwholesome.

When you abstain from eating and drinking animal products, fewer animals are slaughtered, and you contribute less to climate degradation.

True happiness does not reside in the ill-considered consumption of goods paid for by the suffering, famine, and death of others, but in a life enlightened by the feeling of a constant responsibility for one's neighbor.

Wells Fargo had a glitch - the truth of the matter is they made a business judgement that was wrong. I don't think anything is fundamentally wrong.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

In every other age and class man is held responsible for his reading, and not reading responsible for man. The books a man or woman reads are less the making of character than the expression of it.