Quotes About Morality

Vicdan?n talepleriyle Ben'in yetenekleri aras?ndaki gerilim, 'suçluluk duygusu' olarak alg?lan?r. Toplumsal duygular da, diÄŸer duygularla özdeÅŸ biçimde Ben-ülküsü temeline dayan?rlar." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 67

Normal, bilinçli suçluluk duygusunun (vicdan) yorumunda herhangi bir zorluk yoktur. Ben ile Ben ülküsü aras?ndaki gerilime dayan?r, Ben'in kendi eleÅŸtirel yan?nca yarg?lan???n?n ifadesidir." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 89

Em matéria de sexualidade, somos todos, no momento, doentes ou sãos, não mais do que hipócritas.

nadie es responsable de sus sentimientos y que su conducta y la enfermedad contraída bajo el peso de tales circunstancias constituían un alto testimonio de su moralidad.

bisogna svelarsi come il solo malvagio fra tutte le nobili persone con le quali si spartisce la vita

Die Strenge der ethischen Forderungen würde nicht viel schaden, wenn die Erziehung sagte: So sollten die Menschen sein, um glücklich zu werden und andere glücklich zu machen; aber man muß damit rechnen, daß sie nicht so sind. Anstatt dessen läßt man den Jugendlichen glauben, daß alle anderen die ethischen Vorschriften erfüllen, also tugendhaft sind. Damit begründet man die Forderung, daß er auch so werde.

Schuldgefühle, ... sind die fundamentalen Kräfte, die Großzügigkeit und Altruismus zugrundeliegen.

el antiguo principio de minima non curat praetor, que entre lo bueno y lo malo existe todo un amplio grupo de cosas pequeñas e indiferentes, de las que nadie debe hacerse un reproche.

Não quebro muitas vezes a cabeça a propósito da questão do bem e do mal, mas, em média, descobri muito pouco «bem» entre os homens. Segundo o que deles sei, são na maioria escumalha, quer se reclamem da ética desta ou daquela doutrina, quer de nenhuma.

Another question: why do people often find animal suffering harder to accept than the suffering of other human beings?

Simone Weil was right. Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.

David Lurie is so appalled by his degraded state—no longer sexually attractive but still squirming with lust—that he finds himself musing about actual castration, the possibility that one might get a doctor to do it, or even, with the help of a textbook, do it oneself. For would that really be any more disgusting than the antics of a dirty old man? Instead, he forces himself on one of his students, a cannonball dive into disgrace that will be his undoing.

Why do people often find animal suffering harder to accept than the suffering of other human beings?

And I don't believe any maiden of good family and with an honorable and Christian upbringing would part so easily with her honor, or her life. No, this is the kind of thing people write ballads about. I think when a man or a maiden is tempted to do something like that, they make up a ballad about it, which helps them, but they refrain from actually doing it.

It is one thing to be the common-or-garden villain who says, I don't care if I have wronged you by breaking my word or stealing your goods. But it is another to achieve the rather extraordinary pitch of villainy, which says, I don't even recognize that you have a complaint. A society in which people are incapable of recognizing others as having a complaint, whatever they do, would be one without an ethic - but for that very reason, it would be hard to recognize it as a society at all.

seperate morality from its effects, and you will see that everyone regards ias a nuisance, an annoying brake on their freedom of action.

An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat-shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

El suicidio, bajo mi punto de vista, no constituye un crimen legal ni moral, y nadie debería considerarlo como tal.

You don't have to be guilty of anything in order to feel guilt

As I left the Dayaks I felt torn. They had been endlessly welcoming to me, but they were also openly admitting involvement in, and responsibility for, mass killing. It reinforced what I had found during the previous decade, when I had been investigating terrorism, arms smuggling and organised crime, which was that situations are rarely clear-cut, hardly ever black and white, and good people can do bad things, while bad people can definitely do good. Humans are just so damn complicated.

I did not act from logic, sire, but pinciple. Where is the value of principle if a man refuses to place his faith in it, come what may?

spare me your delight in the greater misfortune of others.' He paused, as a thought struck him. 'There really ought to be a word for that quality since so many people seem to relish the misfortune of others.' Cato cleared his throat.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

For evil to flourish it takes only a few good men to do nothing.