Quotes About Ethics

The good alone die young.

Arabs lie. Let me tell you this, Gent, if you don't know it already. We lie for fun, we lie for profit, we lie all the time, and we don't even know why.

A Jew asks over and over, "What is fair? What is just? Who is a good man, and why?

In frontline dressing stations, wounded men of Axis and Allied armies often received treatment side by side, on no few occasions from German and British medical officers working shoulder to shoulder. The leading exemplar of this code was Rommel himself. When orders from Hitler mandated the execution of captured British commandos, Rommel tossed the document into the trash.

RESISTANCE ONLY OPPOSES IN ONE DIRECTION 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 higher station morally, ethically, or spiritually. So if you're in Calcutta working with the Mother Teresa Foundation and you're thinking of bolting to launch a career in telemarketing. . . relax. Resistance will give you a free pass.

Quando un essere umano uccide un animale per mangiarlo, soffoca la propria aspirazione alla giustizia. L'uomo invoca misericordia, ma è incapace di manifestarla agli altri. Perché allora dovrebbe aspettarsi la misericordia da Dio?

He did not appreciate the fact that his own fishing trip to Florida, coinciding with his wife giving premature birth, was splattered all over the front pages while Kennedy's tryst with girls on friend George Smathers's boat in Florida, while Jacqueline Kennedy was giving well-planned birth, was treated like a national secret by his media protectors.

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.

Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have done, but really because they believe that this is what God wants them to do, going all the way back to Abraham being willing to sacrifice Issac because God told him to do that. Putting God ahead of humanity is a terrible thing.

We simply do not find anything in the laws of nature that in any way corresponds to ideas of goodness, justice, love, or strife

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion

The operative principle for all is what Danny Hillis calls the Golden Rule of Time: Do for the future what you're grateful the past did for you. (Or what you wish the past had done for you.) That tells you the right thing to do.

Where ends the war without a brain and heart to conduct it ?

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

righteousness - the moral justification to act with cruelty.

his ludicrously unqualified son-in-law says

With a Senate nominee voicing an opinion on "legitimate rape," the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, called on Akin to withdraw from the race and blocked any official party support for him. But four years later, Donald Trump called for a ban on Muslims' entering the United States, a clearly unconstitutional edict violating the Constitution's Article VI clause against a religious test, and the Republican Party leadership did nothing.

Falwell, Graham, and others are providing religious cover for moral squalor

Those with the lowest standards willing to grovel and beg are often the recipients of the greatest rewards.

Now there was no need to be concerned with offering equal time or performing a news function.

The transition of the National Rifle Association is a perfect parable: over a couple of decades, it evolved from a gun-safety education organization to a thuggish gang that rewards those at the top with millions of dollars based on proven ability to muscle elected officials into doing what they mostly know is wrong.

You have to care about what you're doing. If you have a society where all we care about is that the other side is bad, and therefore we don't have to do the right thing, that society will break down, and you will have no liberty. I refuse to be a part of that.30