Ethics Quotes

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I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the… — George Will
A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance… — Baruch Spinoza
Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by… — Baruch Spinoza
No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally… — Baruch Spinoza
He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of… — Baruch Spinoza
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments. — Paul Tillich
You don't have to be sick to get better. — Michael Josephson
If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward;… — Immanuel Kant
Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable. — Unknown Author
All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other. — Derrick Bell
Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's… — J. William Fulbright
How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once… — David Brooks
When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems… — Chester Bowles
They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free to kill them?… — J M Coetzee
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the… — Peter Singer
When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately… — Albert Schweitzer
Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of… — Peter Singer
I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving way to such… — Anna Sewell
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and so far as… — George Thorndike Angell

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