Ethical Decision Quotes

#1. The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

Bill Mollison

#2. Not enslaved to principles but bound by love for God, they have become free from the problems and conflicts of ethical decision. They are no longer weighed down by them. They belong completely and solely to God and God's will.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#3. One doesn't begin to be a Christian because of an ethical decision or a great idea, but rather because of an encounter with an event, with a Person, who gives new horizons to life, and with that, a decisive orientation.

Pope Benedict XVI

#4. In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

Edward O. Wilson

#5. Another ethical ideal, the utilitarian principle, maintains that the ultimate criterion of an ethical decision is the balance of positive consequences over negative consequences produced by an action.

Philip A. Becnel IV

#6. Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?

Madeleine M. Kunin

#7. Children aren't helped to become caring members of a community, or ethical decision-makers, or critical thinkers, so much as they're simply trained to follow directions.

Alfie Kohn

#8. The ethical decision is always the fearsome decision. When something matters enough that we are afraid of the consequences afraid that even the honorable choice could result in harm or loss or sorrow that's when ethics are involved.

Henry W. Bloch

#9. Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

Adrian Cadbury

#10. For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.

Alexandra Paul

#11. Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#12. The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical demands of the universe. As Christians we owe our allegiance to God and His will, rather than to man and his folkways

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. John Frame's magnificent work on the Christian life fully endorses the authority of Scripture and practically addresses the need to consider the situations and people involved in ethical decisions.

Richard L. Pratt Jr.

#14. We all have our moments. But you can switch it around. Then you've got the activist type who bases their decisions in the development of a character on what it symbolizes to society - what the ethical code is.

Michelle Rodriguez

#15. Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

Miguel Syjuco