Quotes About Living Ethically

#1. The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth.

Bell Hooks

#2. Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.

Peter Singer

#3. Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something,

Sylvia A. Earle

#4. There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy. If I'm in it and if there's a scene that has a great set-up, I will go as far as somebody will let me.

Ari Graynor

#5. One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.

M.F.K. Fisher

#6. She who must be obeyed, by Horace Rumpole character

John Mortimer

#7. For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#8. When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone.

Joy Behar

#9. I love how people walk around with crucifixes, skullcaps, pointy hats, funny beards and then say 'you should keep your atheism to yourself.'

Ricky Gervais

#10. It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

Baltasar Gracian

#11. There are only two sources of human vice - idleness and superstition, and only two virtues - activity and intelligence.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. Wealth is thus bad ethically only in so far as it is a temptation to idleness and sinful enjoyment of life, and its acquisition is bad only when it is with the purpose of later living merrily and without care. But

Max Weber

#13. Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I could quit my job as a journalist. Turns out it was closer to 10 books. It also turns out that while it's great to see my titles on bookstore shelves, my best customers are schools and libraries.

Kate Klise

#14. It's good to shut up sometimes.

Marcel Marceau

#15. Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.

Thomm Quackenbush

#16. The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

John Milton

#17. The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels form heaven into hell; And them all the Lord transformed to devils, Because they his deed and word Would not revere.

Caedmon