Quotes About Ethics

Tanr?bilimin kötü yan?, y?k?c? eÄŸilimler yaratmak deÄŸil, böyle davran??lara yüksek bir töre süsü vermek, bilgisiz, barbar çaÄŸlardan kalma al??kanl?klara aç?kça kutsal bir özellik tan?mak olmuÅŸtur.

Moral rules ought not to be such as to make instinctive happiness impossible.

The whole conception of God...is a conception quite unworthy of free men

Change is scientific, 'progress' is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

A política é em grande parte dominada por estribilhos moralistas desprovidos de qualquer verdade.

If you wish a man to commit some abominable crime, from which he would naturally recoil in horror, you first teach him loyalty to a gang of arch-criminals, and then make his crime appear to him as exemplifying the virtue of loyalty.

It seems that sin is geographical.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Morala curent? este un amestec bizar de utilitarism È™i superstiÈ›ie, unde îns?, cum e È™i firesc, precump?neÈ™te componenta superstiÈ›ioas?, de vreme ce superstiÈ›ia se afl? la obârÈ™ia regulilor morale.

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious--for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can see them, they reply: Oh, but you forget the good God. Apparently they conceive of the Deity add a Peeping Tom, whose omnipotence enables Him to see through bathroom walls, but who is foiled by bathrobes.

That is why the individual man is the bearer of good and evil, and not, on the one hand, any separate part of a man, or on the other hand, any collection of men. To believe that there can be good and evil in a collection of human beings, over and above the good or evil in the various individuals, is an error; moreover, it is an error which leads straight to totalitarianism, and is therefore dangerous.

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery

A domesticated lion is only an unnatural lion — and whatever is unnatural is untrustworthy.

Sacrifice is a necessary response to evil. You can only shame evil by showing them honor.

We are convinced that we have a clear conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves honorably in everything. Hebrews 13:18

There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother. Proverbs 30:11

You don't have to take an ethics course. You don't have to know God well to know that, if he is righteous at all, some things are wrong. If he is good at all, some things are evil. If God is love, then nothing is more blasphemous than hate.

Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it? Luke 6:9

Never, ever do the easy wrong instead of the harder right.

People also felt that a great crime had been committed, yet there was not going to be a great punishment.

I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.

It is repugnant to an American to inform upon his fellow citizens.

I got through college realizing business was repugnant.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.