Quotes About Ethics

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

The question is whether such a technique can really make a man good. Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the State, very severely hit by you brutal hooligans, not hit back also? But the new view is to say no. The new view is that we turn the bad into the good. All of which seems to me grossly unjust.

Özgür irade ile seçilen kötülük, organize güçler taraf?ndan kiÅŸiye dayat?lan deterministik iyilikten daha m? insancad?r ?

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.

What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good.

Quizás el hombre que elige el mal es en cierto modo mejor que aquel a quien se le impone el bien

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness?

There is the devastatingly simple, yet profound, moral dilemma, which underlies the book: is it better for a man to choose to be bad than to be conditioned to be good?

The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

Ser bueno puede llegar a ser algo horrible.

Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

Algunas veces no es grato ser bueno, pequeño 6655321. Ser bueno puede llega a ser algo horrible. Y te lo digo sabiendo que puede ser una afirmación muy contradictoria. ¿Qué quiere Dios, el bien o que uno elija el camino del bien? Quizás el hombre que elige el mal es en cierto modo mejor que aquel a quien se le impone el bien.

Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Birisi sana vurursa, sen de ona vurursun, deÄŸil mi? Siz gaddar serseriler de devlete çok sert vuruyorsunuz, öyleyse devlet niye ayn? ÅŸekilde kar??l?k vermesin. Ama yeni bak?? aç?s? buna hay?r diyor. Yeni bak?? aç?s?na göre, kötüleri iyiye dönüÅŸtürmeliymiÅŸiz. (syf. 82)

Ser bom pode não ser agradável, 6655321. Pode ser horrível ser bom. E quando digo isto a você, eu compreendo como soa contraditório. Eu sei que vou passar muitas noites sem dormir por causa disto. O que é que Deus quer? Deus quer a bondade ou a escolha da bondade? O homem que escolhe o mal é talvez de uma certa forma melhor do que aquele a quem a bondade é imposta.

Iyi bir insan olmak çok da hoÅŸ olmayabilir. Iyi bir insan olmak korkunç olabilir. Bunu sana söylerken, kulaÄŸa ne kadar çeliÅŸkili geldiÄŸini biliyorum...Tanr? ne ister? Tanr? iyilik mi ister yoksa iyi olma seçeneÄŸini mi? KötülüÄŸü seçen bir insan, kendisine iyilik dayat?lm?? bir insandan baz? aç?lardan daha üstün olabilir mi?

Ya no es un malhechor. Tampoco es una criatura capaz de una elección moral.

A bondade vem de dentro. A bondade é algo que se escolhe. Quando um homem perde a capacidade de escolha, deixa de ser homem.

is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.

Ma il vero peccato sta nell'intenzione essenziale. Un uomo che non può scegliere cessa di essere un uomo

Ä°yilik seçilemeyen bir ÅŸeydir. Ä°nsan seçemediÄŸinde insanl?ktan ç?kar. (syf. 73 – 74)