Quotes about Ethics

Everyone, from almost every tradition, agrees on five things. Rule 1: We are all family. Rule 2: You reap exactly what you sow, that is, you cannot grow tulips from zucchini seeds. Rule 3: Try to breathe every few minutes or so. Rule 4: It helps beyond words to plant bulbs in the dark of winter. Rule 5: It is immoral to hit first. [pp.313-314]

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

Power used to be about giving, not getting.

You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.

A Warrior of the Light does not accept gifts from his enemy.

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

Life is not yours to take.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.

No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.