A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.
Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'
Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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