Applied Ethics Quotes

#1. The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.

R.C. Sproul

#2. All [people] are intolerant ... Only they're intolerant of different things.

Joan D. Vinge

#3. A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

Miguel De Cervantes

#4. Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart.

Patricia Briggs

#5. Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ... and he's in prison ... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

Bill Watterson

#6. Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and absolute. This is the magic place, the mad place at the spark gap between word and world.

Alan Moore

#7. I've never been a believer in the word-count thing. I write slowly and tinker with the words and the word order, and I throw a lot of stuff out.

Adrian McKinty

#8. God has chosen to let you live in this fallen world because he plans to employ the difficulties of it to continue and complete his work in you.

Paul David Tripp

#9. Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart:
How to Know for Sure You Are Saved

J.D. Greear

#10. It's because I work in ethics, and, more specifically, applied ethics, that I think it's important that if you have things to say that you think are right and you think could make the world a better place, it's important that many people read about them.

Peter Singer

#11. It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. I focus on Islamic applied ethics in many fields, and here I am saying that coming back to the Qu'ran and the sunnah as our reference point does not mean that we depend for our ethics on 'Islam as opposed to the others'.

Tariq Ramadan

#13. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

George Eliot

#15. Why [..] should the boundary of sacrosanct life match the boundary of our species?

Peter Singer

#16. I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance, and since '96, that guy has been producing at least one hit every summer and every winter. That's a pretty good resume.

John Cena

#17. She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Jane Austen

#18. Does anything we do ever end it?

Lance Charnes

#19. Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.

Miguel