Quotes About Ethics

Das Schicksal des Menschen ist der Mensch.

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

Wer die Wahrheit nicht weiß, der ist bloß ein Dummkopf. Aber wer sie weiß und sie eine Lüge nennt, der ist ein Verbrecher.

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

I can't abide injustice.

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or is it only those who have the money who can enter the land of milk and honey?

For the wickedness of the world is so great you have to run your legs off in order to avoid having them stolen from under you.

Where else are you going to get morality from, is what I say? Peace is just piggishness, it takes war to establish order.

You heard of honest Socrates, The man who never lied: They weren't so grateful as you think. Instead the rulers fixed to have him tried And handed him the poisoned drink. How honest was the people's noble son! The world however didn't wait But soon observed what followed on. It's honesty that brought him to that state. How fortunate the man with none!

Selflessness is a rare virtue, because it doesn't pay for itself.

Potkupljivost je u ljudi isto što u Boga milosr?e.

Es curioso. Cuando se oye hablar a los señorones, sólo hacen la guerra por el temor de Dios y por todo lo que es bueno y hermoso. Pero si bien se mira no son tan tontos y hacen la guerra por la ganancia.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Vi što nas u?ite da živeti treba Bez greha i bez misli kakve zle, Morate najpre da nam date hleba, Pa tad zborite: s tim po?inje sve. Svi vi što volite svoj trbuh i naš rad Pamtite dobro, za ceo vek: Ma kako stvari obrtali sad, Prvo je ždranje. Moral - potom tek. Siromah mora prvo mo?i, zna se, Deo poga?e da odse?e zna se.

We are only permitted to take emotional stands on issues that do not affect corporate power.

By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.