Quotes About Ethics

Cependant ils manifestent le plus respectable souci qui puisse torturer une âme noble : elle veut demeurer digne de sa propre estime ; elle met son propre souffrage plus haut que celui d'autrui et par là elle se réalise comme absolu

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.

Mi acción no es para otro sino lo que él mismo la hace ser: ¿cómo puedo, pues, saber de antemano lo que hago?; y si no lo sé, ¿cómo puedo proponerme obrar por la humanidad?

It was not murder that fulfilled Sade's erotic nature; it was literature.

He made of his sexuality an ethic; he expressed this ethic in works of literature. It is by this deliberate act that Sade attains a real originality.

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

But it is impossible for anyone to say 'I am sacrificing myself' without feeling bitterness.**

Hay que añadir que los hombres más respetuosos con al vida embrionaria son también lo que más prontos se muestran cuando se trata de condenar adultos a una muerte militar.

O homem é livre; mas ele encontra a lei na sua própria liberdade.

In many cases, the man can commit acts with woman's complicity that degrade her without tarnishing his lofty image.

That is why Saint-Just, who believed in the individual and who knew that all authority is violence, said with somber lucidity, "No one governs innocently.

Y, ¿ante los ojos de quién mi conducta es fuga, si para mí es libre elección de un fin?

Not only do we assert that the existentialist doctrine permits the elaboration of an ethics, but it even appears to us as the only philosophy in which an ethics has its place.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

The social order, though necessary, is essentially evil, whatever it may be.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are evil simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.

There should not be the slightest discrepancy between one's beliefs and one's way of life.

There isn't a man on earth who doesn't at times pronounce an opinion on good and evil, even if it be only to find fault with somebody else.

A gyilkosság bosszú azért, hogy halandók vagyunk.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.