Ethical Guidelines Quotes

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cousin‟s Wife. Moses must have forgotten to write that one down

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.

God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.

You cannot learn doctrine well until you follow the doctrine you learn!

DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

I live my life by certain standards.

There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.

In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near the bottom, there is Treason.

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

Golden Rule lies at the heart of every religious and of every ethical system of morality, it what makes us look at one another. The religions have all adopted it independently, Chinese, Indian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, because they find it works and because it says something very deep about the structure of our humanity.

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

When men see how relevant the ten commandments are for economics, they should gain new respect for the importance of the laws of God for all of life, but especially for the life of dominion man, the man redeemed by grace through faith in the one true Dominion Man, Jesus Christ.