Quotes About Ethics

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

We need to set our affections on one good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing.

With the Epicureans it was never science for the sake of science but always science for the sake of human happiness.

Jangan iri kepada siapa pun, karena orang baik tidak layak diirikan. Sedangkan orang jahat, semakin mereka makmur, semakin mereka merusak diri sendiri.

Epicurus as a moral empiricist felt that our immediate feelings are far more cogent and authoritative guides to the good life than abstract maxims, verbal indoctrination, or even the voice of reason itself. Hence he based his ethics on nature, not on convention or on reason.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living pleasantly.

Tidak mungkin kita hidup bahagia kalau kita hidup dengan sembrono, tidak melakukan perbuatan-perbuatan yang layak dan tidak berlaku adil. Orang yang tidak melakukan perbuatan-perbuatan yang baik, tidak bisa hidup dengan senang.

The just person enjoys. the greatest peace of mind, while the unjust is full of the utmost disquietude.

Il massimo bene è la prudenza. Per questo la prudenza è anche più pregevole della filosofia, e da essa hanno origine anche tutte le altre virtù, perché insegna come non è possibile una vita felice che non sia una vita saggia, bella e giusta, e non è possibile una vita saggia, bella e giusta che non sia felice. Le virtù sono infatti connaturate alla vita felice e la vita felice è da esse inseparabile.

A justiça que surge da natureza é um compromisso de vantagem mútua, para impedir que os homens se ofendam uns aos outros e para evitar que sejam ofendidos.

É impossível para a pessoa que viola em segredo qualquer artigo do pacto social se sentir segura de que ficará impune, mesmo que já tenha escapado dez mil vezes; pois até o fim de sua vida nunca tem certeza de que não será descoberta.

Kiitosta ei pidä kerjätä ja itse meidän tulee kantaa vastuu elämämme parantamisesta.

É impossível viver uma vida agradável sem viver sabiamente, bem e justamente, e é impossível viver sabiamente, bem e justamente sem viver agradavelmente.

nunca haveria diferença entre um prazer e outro, como de fato existe.

If man is nothing but a material mechanism and part of the world mechanism, then his choices of good and evil are mechanically determined, and he cannot be said to be an autonomous and responsible ethical being. Thus if materialism is to save moral responsibility and at the same time save determinism, it must represent man as partially determined (in his organic functions) and partially free (in his ethical capacity).

O homem justo é o mais livre da angústia; o injusto o mais cheio de angústia.

Natural justice is a covenant for mutual benefit, to not harm one another or be harmed.

Practice these and the related percepts day and night and you will live as a god among men.

If you are indifferent to a wrong, then you are part of it.

nearly half of all respondents, both Jewish and non-Jewish, had broken the law in a variety of minor ways. Typical of these were listening to illegal foreign radio broadcasts, belonging to illegal youth groups, offering aid and support to people threatened by the Nazis, and speaking critically about Nazi leaders and policies in the company of friends and acquaintances.

While only a handful of the thousands of non-Jews who took our survey had ever been sent to jail, taken into protective custody, or sent to a concentration camp even though the majority had committed illegal acts during the Third Reich, great numbers of the Jewish respondents

International big business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood!

But it was useless to try to explain him in terms of Good and Evil. They were no more than baroque abstractions. Good Business and Bad Business were the elements of the new theology. Dimitrios was not evil. He was logical and consistent; as logical and consistent in the European jungle as the poison gas called Lewisite and the shattered bodies of children killed in the bombardment of an open town.

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