Quotes About Ethics

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

Virtually every politician portrayed in film or on television over the last decade has been venal, corrupt, opportunistic, cynical, if not worse. Whether these dramatized images are accurate or exagerated matters little. The corporatist system wins either way: directly through corruption and indirectly through the damage done to the citizen's respect for the representative system. (III - From Corporatism to Democracy)

In the West, of course, God has been dead for some time. What remains is religion as social belief, which is at best a moral code and at worst social etiquette.

Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.

The limitation of liberty is justified only when it is necessary for liberty itself, to prevent an invasion of freedom that would be still worse.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place

It may be expedient but it is not just that some should have less in order that others may prosper.

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moral order arises in some way from human nature itself and from the requirements of our living together in society.

Finally, moral philosophy was always the exercise of free, disciplined reason alone. It was not based on religion, much less on revelation, since civic religion did not offer a rival to it. In seeking moral ideals more suited than those of the Homeric age to the society and culture of fifth-century Athens, Greek moral philosophy from the beginning stood more or less by itself.

El resultado es que con frecuencia parecemos obligados a escoger entre el utilitarismo y el intuicionismo.

Humans are supposed to be better than that! I'm embarrassed for my whole damned species.

Animals do not 'give' their life to us, as the sugar-coated lie would have it. No, we take their lives. They struggle and fight to the last breath, just as we would do if we were in their place.

Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

The ancient Greeks told of a philosopher eating bread and lentils for dinner. He was approached by another man, who lived sumptuously by flattering the king. Said the flatterer, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king, you would not have to live on lentils." The philosopher replied, "If you would learn to live on lentils, you would not have to give up your independence in order to be docile and acquiescent to the king.

Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, the ICI spin-off that now exclusively funds and controls Breast Cancer Awareness Month, earns more than $300 million a year from the sale of a carcinogenic herbicide (acetochlor) while simultaneously marketing Tamoxifen, which has now become the world's bestselling cancer therapy drug.

I'm against abortion as a form of birth control, and I basically hold to the Reagan position.

Inhabited by an endless stream of mountebanks, bigots, thieves, embezzlers, and bribe-takers, it would be challenging to violate the dignity of Mexico's legislatures.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality.

Taste… is the only morality…. Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what you are.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.