Quotes About Ethics

Aclararé lo que entiendo por «mentira», que no sólo es tergiversar a sabiendas aquello que consideramos verdad, sino pricipalmente escamoteársela a quienes tienen derecho a esperarla de nosotros sobre determinados asuntos.

Rodéese de personas «sanas» y honestas, que compartan sus mismos valores ante la vida.

Los animales no son cosas y tienen alma y no son negociables ni manipulables y hay una jerarquía en ellos que se establece según la complejidad de sus sistemas nerviosos, por los cuales sufren y sienten como nosotros: la jerarquía del dolor.

Hoy en Estados Unidos se están produciendo y masacrando al año por este sistema de producción desalmada 50 millones de vacas, terneros y cerdos, 200 millones de pavos y 6.000 millones de pollos para que los dueños de los Burger King, los McDonald's y los Wendy's inflen sus bolsas y los comedores de carne, negros y blancos, cristianos y musulmanes, tengan carburante para sus almas inmortales.

ley es para tranquilizarles la conciencia a los del Congreso, que creen que están trabajando;

Ya ni se ríen: todo tesoro público que les entra a sus bolsillos sin fondos se les hace cosa natural.

En medio de un hervidero sanguinolento de cabezas cercenadas nació la maldita revolución de los derechos; en medio de otra nace ahora la bendita revolución de los deberes.

Not only a pregnant woman is an outrage toward ethics but also an attack on aesthetics. Motherhood degrades women, it turns them into cows. With the forgiveness of cows, my sisters.

Es que Dios, como Pablo Escobar no mata por mano propia, Él no se ensucia: para eso tiene sus sicarios.

Nadie tiene la obligación de hacer el bien, todos tenemos la obligación de no hacer el mal.

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, conthrols th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

I think a lie with a purpose is wan iv th' worst kind an' th' mos' profitable.

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

We have to stop pretending that we are dealing with a rational counter-party. You know, these people are caging children at the border.

While I am alive I shall never be in such slavery as to forgo my own kindred, or forget the laws of our forefathers.

If we think of Christian theology and ethics purely in terms of forgiveness, we will have neglected a central aspect of God's own character and will be in no position to understand the cross in its fullest dimension.

Only those who are forgiven and who are willing to forgive will be capable of relentlessly pursuing justice without falling into the temptations to pervert it into injustice" (Exclusion and Embrace, 123).

The impact of the thinking machine will be a shock certainly of comparable order to that of the atomic bomb." He

Indeed, Wiener was the first information-age forebear to consider information, not as a tangible good to be bought and sold, but as "content"—whether that content was an ephemeral commodity like the news, a body of scientific knowledge, or the living substance of everyday experience human beings extracted from the world around them. To

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm.