Quotes about Ethical Evaluation

secular world judges people on the basis of their behavior rather than their favorite clothes and ceremonies.

Never praise or blame people on common grounds; look to their judgements exclusively. Because that is the determining factor, which makes everyone's actions either good or bad.

Welcome to the decline of America where, in six short decades, we have gone from aspiring to judge a man by the content of his character to aspiring that every reporter look just like politicians they cover.

From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective.

No one must ever fancy another human being so much more evil than themselves that killing was justified.

Jesse Watters is just a deplorable human being. I have no respect for him whatsoever.

I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

I think if I had to choose another profession, I'd like to be a judge because I'm very capable of determining what's right and what's not.

We don't evaluate what's right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within the culture.

We are very keen to disapprove.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

In deciding what is rational to do, we need to take into account two further considerations independent of probability, which Keynes called 'the weight of argument' and 'moral risk'.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish—not sit intending on a chair.

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.

If Christianity is anything, it's a refusal to see human behavior as ruled by the balance sheet. We're not supposed to see the things we do as adding up into piles of good and evil we can subtract from each according to some kind of calculus to tell us how, on balance, we're doing.

You approach the cases, not thinking that you have some obligation to win but that you actually have to evaluate the facts and make sure that you're doing the right thing.

people judge people as less moral when they act altruistically and gain in the process than when they gain from clearly nonaltruistic behavior.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

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

For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.

accountability. Now there is a word with a solid – indeed a solemn – pedigree. The Good Book itself tells us that on the Day of Judgement everyone shall be required to give an account of themselves.