Quotes About Ethics

Common sense tells us that as long as people exist, disease will always coexist with us. And the same holds true for our social lives — as long as there are people, there will always be those diseased people (what I mean is those ethically corrupt boneheads) living among us. During times of stability, our lives are ordinary and routine, and the peace and quiet of the monotonous everyday gradually conceals the great kindness and the horrific evil that humans are capable of.

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

Oddly, Leon Stover, in Robert A. Heinlein, one of the best close readers in other ways, comes away with the idea that Heinlein 'defends the traditional ethics of Christian civilisation' (p. 61) which is a hard argument to make given the amount of out-of-wedlock sex in his work and the satirisation of so much Christian practice in Stranger in a Strange Land and Job.

Loretta Young, a world-class Catholic who kept a "swear box" on the set into which everyone had to make a deposit for their naughty words. Merman saw it, turned to Loretta, and said, "What the hell is this?" Loretta smiled sweetly and said, "Oh, Ethel, I'm afraid now you have to put twenty-five cents into the swear box." Ethel gave her a look and grinned as she said, "How much will it cost me to tell you to go fuck yourself?

Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.

Doubt afflicts the good, not the bad.

Kikes!" Macko spit. "I wouldn't fuck those pieces of shit if they was the last bitches on earth." Decker's eyes blurred for a split second. When they refocused, he realized his hand was on the butt of his .38.

A rape in Jewtown," Marge muttered. "I've always thought of the place as sacrosanct. Sort of like a convent. Who'd rape a nun?" "Who'd rape, period?" Decker said. "Good point.

Nor can one take an unfair attitude even towards enemies: "Let the enmity of a people[towards you] not determine you upon an unjust course; be fair, it is closer to taqw?. Quran

The corruption of religious leaders, who were expected to be the source of spiritual force and regeneration, is the last step in the of decay of a community.

top up position down ? bottom "The corruption of religious leaders, who were expected to be the source of spiritual force and regeneration, is the last step in the decay of a community.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

If I could only get rich by bankrupting every supplier I ever dealt with, then I would do it in a heartbeat. I wouldn't feel good about doing it, but I'd do it. Getting rich isn't about vendor–customer 'partnerships'. And anyway, I have found that good suppliers respect a hard-nosed attitude providing it's logical and providing you pay on time.)

But hey! If you want to be rich, sometimes you have to sup with the devil. And nobody cares, least of all 'analysts', how long or how short your spoon is.

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish.

Most German perpetrators were never punished or rewarded for their behavior, but they had learned something about themselves. They know what they did or didn't do in the most morally fraught moment of their lives. They have seen themselves in extreme circumstances and, in that, they have seen their own extremes.

Par là le confucianisme aboutit à une règle de vie, à une morale qui tend à maintenir ordre et hiérarchie dans la société et dans l'État, et qui réagit vivement contre l'anarchie intellectuelle et sociale des sophistes et légistes.

Il est évident que les 'vertus prêchées par les confucianistes, respect, humilité... soumission et subordination aux supérieurs en rang et en âge', renforcent puissamment l'autorité politique et sociale de la caste des lettrés, c'est-à-dire leur propre classe. Cette morale formaliste et traditionnelle a beaucoup compté dans la continuité et l'immobilisme social de la Chine.

La misma acción puede ser horrible hoy y estupenda mañana, según quién la lleve a cabo; en la personalización continua del español, la calidad del hombre es la que determina la gravedad del pecado y no al revés.

Ar fi o mare nebunie s? vrei s? te lupÅ£i cu un duÅŸman pentru care lupta în sine ÅŸi scandalul conteaz? mai mult chiar decât victoria ÅŸi înfrângerea duÅŸmanului.

La limitación, tanto de la inteligencia como de la voluntad, hace posible el ejercicio desviado de la libertad, en la elección del mal en cuanto bien aparente;

un Estado no puede durar como Estado de Derecho si no se reconocen valores absolutos previos al Estado.

Y sabes por qué no resulta sencillo decir cuándo un ser humano es "bueno" y cuándo no lo es? Porque no sabemos para qué sirven los seres humanos.