Quotes About Ethics

Be sweet, be good, and honest always.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

Pardon me, madam, if I have little respect for honor. I think it's only a euphemism for double standard and hypocrisy. - Clay Sutherland

Piracy is our only option.

It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it.

existe un límite? ¿Causas que te negarías a defender? «Si me preguntas eso, quiere decir que no has comprendido qué es ser abogado. Yo no defiendo ninguna causa, pero no rechazo a ningún acusado.

Quien tiene dos mujeres pierde el alma, quien tiene dos casas pierde la razón.»

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.

He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

When you're paid to do a job, it's better to give a few minutes more to it, than a few minutes less. That's one of the differences between doing a job honestly and doing it dishonestly! See?

Journalists say a thing that they know is not true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

It is clear that the use of such a weapon cannot be justified on any ethical ground which gives a human being a certain individuality and dignity even if he happens to be a resident of an enemy country.

One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.

La verdadera inteligencia va de la mano de la bondad, o no es inteligencia.

Cuando M. Weber define el poder político como «dominación legítima ante obedientes», rechaza toda posible coherencia entre ética y política; las transforma en un maquiavelismo vulgar.

Por ello, se propone reformular una ética, coherente dentro de la tradición filosófica islámica, que critique a la Modernidad europea, como expresión de la civilización occidental2.

una moral moderna propia desde fines del siglo XV, comenzando por Ginés de Sepúlveda, filósofo moralista español del siglo XVI, pasando a un Hobbes en el siglo XVII, un Kant en el XVIII, un Nietzsche en el XIX o F. von Hayek en el siglo XX (este último, el formulador vienés del neoliberalismo que justifica la colonialidad, el capitalismo y el liberalismo que se imponen a las culturas periféricas).

La moral es el arte de vivir con dignidad:

En el campo de la familia podemos decir cosas muy parecidas: al haberse colado el hedonismo y la permisividad, con todo lo que traen consigo, hoy son muchos los que tienen una idea de la familia sin consistencia y podemos comprobar la escasa inteligencia para la vida que tienen.

El relativismo es hijo natural de la permisividad,