Quotes About Ethics

Libertarian principles are very simple, but you can't violate any of them and still call yourself Libertarian.

You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.

For us to support the liquidation of a simple life in a large part of the world is not a particularly attractive prospect.

I am a simple person, I try to do my best on the pitch and do nothing wrong both on and off the pitch.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

I know I admitted to being in love with Nasir Hussain in 'The Hit Girl', but as much as I loved him, I could never consider breaking up his family and traumatising his children. It was far simpler and satisfying to be on my own.

Simplicity and honesty make a person most graceful, but in today's world, they are overrated.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Character is simply habit long continued.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need to do - or want to do - next. They see nothing wrong with it. They feel no guilt. They express no guilt. And it's not even certain what harm they do.

no individual can afford to be the only honest one in a community of self-enhancers.89

Often people have an instant intuition that an action is immoral, and then struggle, often unsuccessfully, to come up with reasons why it is immoral.169

progreso» no guiado por el humanismo no es progreso.

It is a bad idea to say that discrimination is wrong only because the traits of all people are indistinguishable. It is a bad idea to say that violence and exploitation are wrong only because people are not naturally inclined to them. It is a bad idea to say that people are responsible for their actions only because the causes of those actions are mysterious. It is a bad idea to say that our motives are meaningful in a personal sense only because they are inexplicable in a biological sense.

Resistance obstructs movement only from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in the arts, launch an innovative enterprise, or evolve to a high station morally, ethically, or spiritually.

Every virtue that reaches the exaggeration, is becoming a defect

When Krishna instructed Arjuna that we have a right to our labor but not to the fruits of our labor, he was counseling the warrior to act territorially, not hierarchically. We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

When we raise our game aesthetically, we elevate it morally and spiritually as well.

The only items you get to keep are love for the work, will to finish, and passion to serve the ethical, creative Muse.

The hack is like the politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders. It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you've sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from. I