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Ethics Quotes
"Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful even if the surface is ugly. Truthful is he who says what is true even if the truth is ugly. Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior without first weighing the interior. And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out without first judging what he sees in the mirror."
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"There's a saying that you can't put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it's so much lower than you would think. Yes, human life has its price like anything else, and will continue to do so for as long as it doubles as a commodity."
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"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right."
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"Higher income either indicates higher intelligence or lesser morals!"
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"Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue."
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"Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing-or more complicated-than it is today."
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"One owes loyalty, only, to those who demonstrate in kind."
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"Don't do d right things for the wrong reasons."
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"If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales."
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"Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue."
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"Pity that child who was born near Rouen,His only crime, to arrive deformed."
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"Be careful how you live. Someone is always watching and will look to you as an example, an excuse, or a warning. The message some choices send is why struggle to do the right thing when you can do the wrong thing and be happy. Should we be happy or should we be right?"
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"It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin."
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"My only policy is to profess evil and do good."
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"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"
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"Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!"
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"Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion."
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"When you slander someone [talk negatively about people], you earn a debit in your account and that person will earn a credit. Who would do these kinds of business?"
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"Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth."
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"But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant."
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"If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to kill or torture another being for holding a different belief system than one's own, then that entity is no being of the civilized human society, it is merely a pest from the stone-age."
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"It's futile to point the finger of condemnation and say, "Men... this" or "Women... that". Truth is, we are all guilty and innocent of many of life's trials."
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"An honorable man has a heart for the poor and vulnerable in our society."
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"My ethical values prevent me from investing in the stock market."
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"To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd."
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"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward."
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"A man, who does not commit an evil act either, has no opportunity or the stomach."
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"He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most."
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"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."
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"Those who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes."
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"Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and political parties and laws, wear keepsakes, apologize years after an offense, whisper, fear themselves, interpret dreams, hide their genitalia, shave, bury time capsules, and can choose not to eat something for reasons of conscience. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them."
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"During any experience placed before us, we can stay in alignment with positivity, truth, and goodness by asking the question: What would honor and love do here?"
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"Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right."
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"If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals."
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"The easiest way to forget about the people who are dying in wars right now is to close our eyes and ears! And this is also the ugliest and the vilest way!"
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"Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life."
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"If a country successfully translate the principles of truth and honesty into their social life, social issues and problems are resolved in a civilized manner."
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