107 Quotes About Ethics-and-moral-philosophy

When the forest gives you a fistful of fruits, they are yours; but when it reveals to you a thicket of trees laden with fruit, it is entrusting you to call the whole village.

The ethics of peace is liberal; it's not conservative based.

Human beings have the power to continue to oppress other species forever, or until we make this planet unsuitable for living beings. Will our tyranny continue...? Or will we rise to the challenge and prove our capacity for genuine altruism by ending the ruthless exploitation of the species in our power, not because we are forced to do so by rebels and terrorists, but because we recognize that our position is morally indefensible?

Without ethics, a human race falls to inhumanity. Ethics determines your real value in this world and the hereafter.

Y sabes por qué no resulta sencillo decir cuándo un ser humano es "bueno" y cuándo no lo es? Porque no sabemos para qué sirven los seres humanos.

We invariably have an internalised personal code of honour, an inner voice that embodies us with a sincere, strong sense of decency that surpasses Rag, Tag & Bobtail’s acquiescence to law and ethics. Think Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean, Terry McCann from Minder or the heroic English folklore outlaw, Robin Hood.

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

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

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