Ethics Quotes

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We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our… — Peter Singer
The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes,… — Price Pritchett
The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the low… — Price Pritchett
Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth. — Gautama Buddha
Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret… — Michel de Montaigne
From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral distinctions arise from… — David Hume
There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward,… — Albert Einstein
All phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network. — Gautama Buddha
Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray. — Kabir
Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but… — Marcus Aurelius
So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather… — Leo Tolstoy
My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence… — Mahatma Gandhi
We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition. — Robert Neelly Bellah
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess. — Unknown Author
.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory. — David Hume
It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events. — David Hume
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or… — David Hume
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is… — David Hume
These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may, the one as… — David Hume
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final… — David Hume

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