Quotes About Ethics

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

There is no real victory unless it shares the righteousness of that man's heart.

I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless.

Si Dios no existe, todo queda permitido.» FIODOR DOSTOIEVSKI

For him, humans were born with potential and, given the use of reason and the right upbringing/education, could be ethically good. This was the very opposite of what would become the Christian view under St Augustine and the notion of original sin.

Above all we get by in societies where the often anonymous state is there to guard against the crude selfishness of human nature.

Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

At least one theory suggests that while great apes and adult Humans are sentient, young Human children are not. I admit to a certain fondness for this conclusion; if childen aren't nonsentient, they're certainly psychopathic)

The smallest multicorp killed more people than all the sex killers who ever lived, for a fucking profit margin—and the WTO gave them awards for it.

At least one theory suggests that while great apes and adult Humans are sentient, young Human children are not.101 I admit to a certain fondness for this conclusion; if childen aren't nonsentient, they're certainly psychopathic). But

I deal with other people's information. I don't vomit my own personal life into the public sphere.

WHY SHOULD MAN EXPECT HIS PRAYER FOR MERCY TO BE HEARD BY WHAT IS ABOVE HIM WHEN HE SHOWS NO MERCY TO WHAT IS UNDER HIM? —Pierre Troubetzkoy

Grey syndrome.

T]hey don't care about realpolitik or the big picture. They only care about monkey-wrenching and whistle blowing.

Here in the dusk of the twenty-first century it was so easy to confuse murder with the amputation of a fingertip.

never humanize your victims. It shouldn't have been such an issue when dealing with methane-breathing medusae.

The gut was not a long-range organ. Its grasp of culpability degraded exponentially with distance; there

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

Evil does not exist in isolation. It is a product of amorality by consensus.

Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores."

Am prea pu?in? via?? ca s?-mi pot îng?dui a o mânji prin compromisuri...

Freedom you do not steal, freedom you have to have whole.

Nüzhet bana yalan söyledi. Dünyan?n hiç bir Nüzhet'i yalan söylememelidir.

Kad?n?n a?k ahlak? bazan a?k?n d???nda ahlak tan?maz.