Quotes About Ethics

Yaln?zca önümde durup da beni, kendisini yemeÄŸe davet eden bir hayvan? yemek istemiyorum o kadar, dedi Arthur, bu insafs?zl?k. Yenilmek istemeyen bir hayvan? yemekten iyidir, dedi Zaphod.

who pursued a brilliant academic career studying ancient philology, transformational ethics and the wave harmonic theory of historical perception

You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!

I said I ordered us some foie gras." "Oh," said Arthur, vaguely. "Um, I always feel a bit bad about foie gras. Bit cruel to the geese, isn't it?" "Fuck 'em," said Ford, slumping on the bed. "You can't care about every damn thing.

He was also firmly and utterly opposed to all and any forms of cruelty to any animals whatsoever except geese.

Ye cannae fix injustice-with more of it.

We have taken forward steps in learning that wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people alive to-day," Roosevelt said, "but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

Hitler's commitment to the V-2 advanced the pursuit of a moonshot by perhaps decades. Though Hitler had no expressed interest in reaching the moon, the uncomfortable fact is that the darkest shafts and foulest backwater of human savagery helped bring this loftiest of human dreams to reality.

What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

Well, it's amazing what you can find in this world if you're willing to sleep with people.

I believe that what separates humanity from everything else in this world – spaghetti, binder paper, deep-sea creatures, edelweiss, and Mount McKinley – is that humanity alone has the capacity at any given moment to commit all possible sins." --Hey Nostradamus!

Exposing hypocrisy doesn't make you a moral person

After playing Halo 2 for 3 hours, I went out and mowed down a Red Cross blood bank, raped anything with a pulse, and trashed the local mall. Then I toasted the gods of destruction with a goblet of blood stolen from a Girl Guide's body.

Remember: Condoms promote licentiousness, so reconsider before using.

Culture is religion externalized.

The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology.

There was a pause while Pendergast considered this. "I prefer hypocrisy to poverty.

At what point in evolution did man acquire the knowledge of good and evil, and thus the capacity to be damned? In this light, the story of Adam and Eve takes on deeper significance. It is a parable of evolution.

Servandae vitae mendacium.

the only person worse than a liar is a hypocrite.

The fact is, you lied about hearing something because you didn't want the management to know you were drunk on duty. Isn't that right?

No crazier than killing Vietcong or packing explosives under some poor bastard's hull

Indeed, Constance. All lawyers are guilty. But this one, I think, is more guilty than most.