Quotes About Morality

Arthur said: "A superman has asked a subhuman to do something which is superhuman. If you had forgiven him, you would never have forgiven yourself all your life.

La restitución moral es más fuerte que la restitución material

Los nazis consideraban la eutanasia como una clase de ejecución casi ética y la reservaban para miembros de su propia raza

Si un estudiante no se desmoronaba cuando tenía que matar a los suyos, no tendría escrúpulo moral para exterminar miles de Untermenschen. El estudiante que no lo resistía, era enviado al frente, donde sus superiores lo destinaban a un Himmetfahrtskommando, escuadrón suicida

No hay libertad sin justicia

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.

It must be added that the men who most respect embryonic life are the same ones who do not hesitate to send adults to death in war.

at the end of the last century, the police discovered two little girls of twelve or thirteen in a bordello; a trial was held where they testified; they spoke of their clients, who were important gentlemen; one of them opened her mouth to give a name. The judge abruptly stopped her: Do not sully the name of an honest man!

There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason - and of our own desires.

Morality resides in the painfulness of an indefinite questioning

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

I was too much of an extremist to be able to live under the eye of God and at the same time say both yes and no to life

As razões práticas invocadas contra o aborto legal não têm qualquer peso; quanto às razões morais, reduzem-se ao velho argumento católico: o feto possui uma alma a que se veda o paraíso, suprimindo-o antes do baptismo. É de observar que a igreja autoriza, ocasionalmente, a morte de homens feitos: nas guerras ou quando se trata de condenados à morte; reserva, porém, para o feto, um humanitarismo intransigente.

He draws the motivations of his moral attitude from within the character which he has given himself and from within the universe which is its correlative.

The means, it is said, will be justified by the end; but it is the means which define it, and if it is contradicted at the moment that it is set up, the whole enterprise sinks into absurdity.

On ne peut pas mener une vie correcte dans une société qui ne l'est pas?

Gerechtigkeit kann innerhalb der Ungerechtigkeit nie geschaffen werden.

Un giorno un uomo mi ha detto: esiste un solo bene, agire secondo la propria coscienza. Credo che avesse ragione, e che tutti gli sforzi che abbiamo la pretesa di fare per gli altri non servano a niente.

Pero, efectivamente, debo esforzarme. Y no sólo por táctica: por moral. He tenido exactamente la vida que quise: tengo que merecer ese privilegio. Si flaqueo ante el primer tropiezo, todo lo que pienso acerca de mi misma no es sino ilusión.

The evil which he had made his refuge vanished when crime was justified by virtue.

Arapski geograf El Bekri, govore?i o Slovenima, kaže: Ako se oženi i vidi da je njegova žena nevina, on joj kaže: Da si nešto vredela, muškarci bi te voleli i našao bi se jedan koji bi ti oduzeo nevinost. Zatim je otera i odri?e je se.