Quotes about Ethics

What else is the electric chair or lethal injection than human sacrifice?

We do wrong, with all the best will in the world. And sometimes we do right without even knowing it.

I think this is one of the situations where there is no right choice. We have to pray that we make the choice that is the least wrong.

There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones

Another area of the moral and spiritual decline of Christendom is the abandonment of Christian mores. The movement away from Christian moral standards has not meant moving to an alternative humanistic system of moral standards as was anticipated, but moving into a moral vacuum, especially in the areas of eroticism.

You'll never go wrong in doing what is right.

Fight honorably, win honorably, and lose honorably.To fail honorably is betterthan to succeed dishonorably.

Fight honorably, win honorably, and lose honorably.To fail honorably is betterthan to succeed dishonorably.

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.