Quotes about Ethics

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

Look, whatever you do in life, remember, think higher and feel deeper. It cannot be bad if you do that.

I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

How was it possible that men, women, and children are being burned and that the world kept silent?

Could men and women who consider it normal to assist the weak, to heal the sick, to protect small children, and to respect the wisdom of their elders understand what happened there? Would they be able to comprehend how, within that cursed universe, the masters tortured the weak and massacred the children, the sick, and the old?

Our ethics are not meant to be created in our childhoods and shoved in a box somewhere; they must be reshaped daily, as we encounter scenarios that challenge our beliefs.

most of us turn to religion for our ethics because we don't know where else to find them.

There is "response" in responsibility.

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

The best of men are just men at best.

One said whatever would be of advantage; the question whether it was true no longer arose.