Quotes About Ethics

Unless a practice cools the fires of greed, aversion, and ignorance it is worthless.

The question is, if we already know what the right and the wrong answers are to moral questions, prior to the formulation of an abstract principle, what is the point of formulating the principle?

Here the rule-utilitarian believes that the only justifiable rules are ones that will promote the greatest happiness, when generally adhered to in a deontic fashion. Thus the rule-utilitarian rejects "deontology" as a theory of moral justification, but accepts deontic constraints as an essential element of moral action.

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty

Há pessoas que, da moral, só têm um pedaço. É um tecido de que nunca farão um fato.

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

Changing the content of our memories or altering their emotional tonalities, however desirable to alleviate guilty or painful consciousness, could subtly reshape who we are, at least to ourselves. With altered memories we might feel better about ourselves, but it is not clear that the better-feeling 'we' remain the same as before." —PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON BIOETHICS

Mistakes may be made, he said, "but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle." The

It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.

In the absence of virtue and wisdom, intelligence becomes a servant of evil.

The minister need not be in the state of grace, nor need he have the faith (negative disposi tion), but he must have the right intention (pos itive disposition).

The Church has always regarded the admin istration of a Sacrament in the state of mortal sin as a sacrilege, and insists on the personal sanc-

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

Newspapers should have no friends.

I think you're a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.

Alla scuola dei cadetti non si è mai imparato nulla su come un ufficiale debba comportarsi in un caso simile

When you can get others to admire your ideals and to want what you want, you do not have to spend as much on sticks and carrots to move them in your direction. Seduction is always more effective than coercion, and many values like democracy, human rights, and individual opportunities are deeply seductive.

A moral vision must be balanced by the realist dimension of prudence to have a reasonable prospect of success.

I want you to carry this question home with you: gain such a victory, and what do you do with it?

Dawnstar, the former ShadowClan leader who had given a life to Raggedstar. "I give you a life for honor," she told Brokentail. "Honor is expected from all cats, but most of all, from a Clan leader. Use the honor of leadership carefully.

You can't always do the right thing. No matter how much you want to.

An honorable warrior does not need to kill other cats to win his battles.

Have they given up the warrior code?" Hollypaw's breath was coming in fast gulps. They've given up more than the code. Jaypaw glanced at the sky. "Is