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What is good is irrepressible. — Robert A. Giacalone

Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity's reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets. — Karen Davis

So, at any rate, it appears. But appearance is not reality. — Gordon Graham

There are a lot of people who pretend to have moral ethics and they talk from both sides of their mouth. — John Assaraf

You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline. — Price Pritchett

Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning ... — Peter Singer

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems. — Charles W. Colson

I am not a wishing well with legs.
(Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.) — Adrian Lamo

If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left. — Peter Singer

Masonry is first and foremost an education society, one which TEACHES moral and ethics - a way of life. Secondly, — Cliff Porter

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof. — Jed Rubenfeld

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I charge my clients for my time and expertise, my heart is free. — Saurabh Gupta

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. — Henry David Thoreau

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core. — Lupe Fiasco

Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal. — Linda Fisher Thornton

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose. — Immanuel Kant

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery — Ben Harper

Netiquette: The social code of network communication. Internet code of conduct based on the Golden Rule. Ethical philosophy of common rules. — David Chiles

The introduction of the word 'intuition' by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument. — Alasdair MacIntyre

...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value. — G.E. Moore

It's the love of right lures men to wrong. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something. — Oscar Wilde

Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices. — Linda Fisher Thornton

If ethics is not the engine of success, in the train of growth, it sure is a guard, with a flag, which may be green, or at times red — Priyavrat Thareja

Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans. — Abhijit Naskar

Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority. — Donald J. Trump

A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present. — Michael J. Marx

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue. — Dalai Lama XIV

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The greed of power drowns our ethics. — Henry Johnson Jr

We wanted a labour force, but human beings came. — Terry Hayes

The greatest ethical test that we're ever going to face is the treatment of those who are at our mercy. — Lyn White

What's the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter? — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

I've tried to live my life right, just like a story. — Angela Sidney

In a city where men are killing each other like animals just to make it a happier place, who has the right to stop me from killing myself? — Orhan Pamuk

Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being. — Mahavira

No man is a man without high morals and ethics. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men — Baruch Spinoza

Divine permission, given to people who think they have god on their side, enables actions that a morally normal unbeliever would not contemplate. — Christopher Hitchens

Do not perform an action for the reward it may bring. Perform it because it is right; it is dharma. — Shelley Schanfield

The self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct. — Mary Barnett Gilson

Bobbing and weaving are methods and maneuvers by which we bend ethics, water down morals, and parse down values to serve our agendas. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral. — Walter Lippmann

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong. — John Ralston Saul

If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all people. — Stephen McAndrew

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of
any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man. — Douglas MacArthur

The ethics of peace is liberal; it's not conservative based. — Henry Johnson Jr

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson

What is moral is what you feel good after. — Ernest Hemingway,

To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact — Peter Singer

Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion. — Mahavira

....it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure. — G.E. Moore

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability. — Mahatma Gandhi

There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing. — Aleister Crowley

If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you? — K.L. Toth

I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect. — Richard M. Stallman

The principle of universality is not a 'theory'. Just moral truism. — Noam Chomsky

Putting yourself in the place of others ... is what thinking ethically is all about. — Peter Singer

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar. — Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. — Mahavira

In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ... — Aldous Huxley

What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature? — Kevin Dutton

Good, then, is indefinable.... — G.E. Moore

True morals are a priceless thing that possesses the highest value and can never be bought or sold at any cost. — Abigail Landsbrook

You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority. — Nenia Campbell

There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having ... money in the bank. — Tom Robbins

Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun ... and you'll have no regrets. — Byrd Baggett

For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them. — G.E. Moore

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right. — Carl Hiaasen

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men ... — Baruch Spinoza

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it. — Mark Twain

Moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong. — Peter Singer

His moral lecture
blazed with hate.
What could have driven a child that far? — Dag Hammarskjold

What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? — Various

If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it? — Chuck Klosterman

...if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition. — G.E. Moore

I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there's really no hope for you. — Joe Hill

If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth. — Immanuel Kant