Quotes About Ethics

Quién podría estar interesado en el destino de un asesino, sino el verdugo que se iba a ganar el sueldo?

Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder, and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature.

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind

to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness;

When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with the blood of innocence, believe that they have done a great deed. They call this retribution. Hateful name! When that word is pronounced, I know greater and more horrid punishments are going to be inflicted than the gloomiest tyrant has ever invented to satiate his utmost revenge.

I could not consent to the death of any human being; but certainly I should have thought such a creature unfit to remain in the society of men.

I had resolved in my own mind, that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness; and I banished from my mind every thought that could lead to a different conclusion.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Faster than the devil *times* Sharper than wind! That's the ultimate law of the hero!!

Those in the ninja world who break the rules and regulations are called filth, but those who don't care about their companions... are even lower than filth.

Parler de paix tout en répandant le sang, c'est quelque chose que seul l'être humain peut faire.

Personne n'a le droit de nous juger avant la fin, parce que nous les hommes, on est capable du meilleur comme du pire

Humanity is, of course, morally free to make and remake itself infinitely, but we do not do so.

Not inventing, and not adopting new ideas, can itself be both dangerous and immoral.

An extraordinarily nimble synthesist, Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences and even intelligence. More important, though, he addresses not only the ethical quandaries faced by contemporary scientists but the reductionist danger in equating inheritability with inevitability." —The New Yorker

Before Medicaid and Medicare existed, writes the American politician and former doctor Ron Paul, 'every physician understood that he or she had a responsibility towards the less fortunate, and free medical care for the poor was the norm'.

Smith went one step further, and suggested that morality emerged unbidden and unplanned from a peculiar feature of human nature: sympathy.

As Lord Acton said, great men are mostly bad men.

Religions always and everywhere insist upon the argument from authority. You should do this or that because the Pope or the Koran or the local priest says you should. For centuries most of the world convinced itself that the only reason people act morally is because of instruction, that in effect without superstition there can be no ethical behaviour.

What if morality itself was not handed down from the Judeo-Christian God as a prescription? And was not even the imitation of a Platonic ideal, but was a spontaneous thing produced by social interaction among people seeking to find ways to get along?

if commercial behaviour might make people more moral.

Morality therefore emerged as a consequence of certain aspects of human nature in response to social conditions.

if sympathy allows you to please yourself by pleasing others, are you being selfish or altruistic?

So one way to raise your standard of living would be to lower somebody else's: buy a slave. That was indeed how people got rich for thousands of years. Yet