individual ethics Quotes

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.

There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience.

When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!

A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

The ruling ideology prefers to talk about individual ethics rather than the capitalist system.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.

If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.

Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to my heart - is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

Custom alone regulates morals.

The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.

I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.