Quotes about Ethical Evaluation

Her mesele bizim ölçülerimizi al?r.

There is a little good in the worst of us and a little bad in the best of us and it ill behoves any of us to criticize the rest of us.

Antropocentrisme: de mens staat bovenaan in de evolutie, we zijn een geschikte maatstaf om het leven van andere dieren tegen af te zetten en de rechtmatige bezitter van al wat leeft.

We should judge one another. It stops us becoming animals. The pressure of failing in the eyes of society passes for some sort of morality.

You can know that you are judging illegitimately when your standard rests outside of Scripture, such as judging motives. Clearly, judging the motives of another places you outside the parameters of legitimate judging.

Conscience cannot convince self-esteem of bad character.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.

What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

was unworthy, almost dishonest, to put a number on somebody's capacities.

Laws are the silent assessors of God.

The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.

We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.

THE TOUCHSTONE

when a person actually needs something or somebody, that's when you can truly read the gauge that contains character.

It is also difficult to define the boundaries within which we judge inequality.

I'm not a critic, and I never talk about other people's work.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot. Well, economists make such calculations all the time, but that's their job, and they think it makes sense.

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.