Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do
If a man is good in his heart, then he is an ethical member of any group in society. If he is bad in his heart, he is an unethical member. To me, the ethics of medical practice is as simple as that.
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Change is one thing, progress is another. "Change" is scientific, "progress" is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
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