Quotes About Ethics

Being powerful and successful on earth through evildoing was not a true mark of superiority.

If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Eskimo earnestly, did you tell me?

I suspect that the real moral thinkers end up, wherever they may start, in botany.

Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?

An honest work generates its own power; a dishonest work tries to rob power from the cataracts of the given.

The whole idea that he could take what he wanted without affecting anyone was bull****.

Let's kill a rabbit," Col says when he wakes up.

Ninety-nine percent of humanity had had something done to their brains, and only a few people in the world knew exactly what. •

she wasn't so much a writer as a thief.

Humanity is central, Laurent, the only thing that matters. We are what puts good and evil in this universe. Not gods or dead people. Not machines. Us.

We all steal," Standerson said. "The trick is to steal from regular people, not other novelists.

Do what you think is right and apologize later.

Romero was like St. Vincent de Paul—a mass of poor people always followed him around. Of course, with his way of thinking, he always got the rich people to pay alms so that he could give them to the poor. That way the poor could have some relief for their problems and the rich could relieve their consciences.48

Öylesine s?n?rlanm???z ki kendi kayg?lar?m?zla, sürekli dönüp baÅŸa geliyoruz, öyle ki art?k doÄŸru ile yanl???, yasad??? hevesle en saf ideal aras?ndaki fark? bile ay?rt edemiyoruz. Ä°ngmar Bergman

euthanizer of compassion

Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too.

the blade and began, very carefully, to make a shallow incision in the neck of a frog he had pinned, through its splayed feet, to the untreated wood.

A time before Flanders and Auschwitz had shown that, given the means of killing and the opportunity to use them, the species, far from being a pinnacle in creation, was actually lower on the scale than all others in its genus or family.

Women tend to act heroically within their own moral universe, regardless of whether anyone else knows about it - donating more kidneys to nonrelatives than men do, for example. Men, on the other hand, are far more likely to risk their lives at a moment's notice, and that reaction is particularly strong when others are watching, or when they are part of a group.

Christianity is a high moral system based on the preaching of a destitute ascetic.

Killing seems to traumatize people regardless of the danger they're in or the perceived righteousness of their cause. Pilots of unmanned drones, who watch their missiles kill human beings by remote camera, have been calculated to have the same PTSD rates as pilots who fly actual combat missions in war zones.

author and ethicist Austin Dacey describes as a "shared public meaning" of the war. Shared public meaning gives soldiers a context for their losses and their sacrifice that is acknowledged by most of the society. That helps keep at bay the sense of futility and rage that can develop among soldiers during a war that doesn't seem to end. Such

Boehm's research has led him to believe that much of the evolutionary basis for moral behavior stems from group pressure. Not only are bad actions punished, but good actions are rewarded.

Subsistence-level hunters aren't necessarily more moral than other people; they just can't get away with selfish behavior because they live in small groups where almost everything is open to scrutiny.