Quotes About Ethics

La beauté est une putain Je préfère l'argent

Many people feel most alive, most fulfilled, when they violate the dictates of conscience or even the promptings of their own self interest.

Politics requires sacrifice. The sacrifice of others, of course.

Morality, Sir, is the monologue of the unexcited and the unexcitable, the revenge of the unsuccessful, the punishment of those who tried and failed, or who never had the courage to try at all.

The greatest businesspeople I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost. And by getting it right, I'm not just talking about the business. I mean that there is something uplifting, some vision, some higher end in sight that "getting it right" would serve. An ethical certainty, a moral principle, a universal truth.

A person's reason for doing someone a good turn matters as much as the good turn itself.

What's so clever about working hard ? he said to Momo. Anyone can get rich quick that way, but who wants to look like the people who've sold themselves body and soul for money's sake ? Well, they can count me out. Even if there are times when I don't have the price of a cup of coffee, I'm still me. Guido's still Guido!

Míralos, lo que parecen los que han vendido la vida y el alma por un poco de bienestar. No, a eso no juego yo.

Hayal kurmak, suç iÅŸlemekten farks?zd?.

Bohr: Heisenberg, I have to say - if people are to be measured strictly in terms of observable quantities... Heisenberg: Then we should need a strange new quantum ethics.

They like to get away with stuff, and they want a small group of players to know it too. Shooting drug dealers and taking their cash, inventing evidence, lying to make a case. They like the wink, they like thinking they're inside something and everyone else is on the outside looking in. Hell, you're the psychologist, you explain it. But it has

One's Christology determines one's ethics; an ethic not congruent with the life, teaching and example of Jesus cannot be called a Christian ethic no matter how many Bible verses one racks up.

What Jewish tradition refers to as the yetzer ha-ra. [15]

our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

Preachers delivered sermons on the Constitution, pro and con.

First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain. It´s about declaring what is just and what is unjust, and distinguishing right from wrong. We don´t grasp these things silently, and then put words to them; language is the medium through which we discern and deliberate about the good.

And so, in the end, the question of markets is really a question about how we want to live together. Do we want a society where everything is up for sale? Or are there certain moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?

The mere fact that a group of people in the past agreed to a constitution is not enough to make that constitution just.

The meritocratic ideal is not a remedy for inequality; it is a justification of inequality.

Justice is not only about the right way to distribute things. It is also about the right way to value things.

Being good at making money measures neither our merit nor the value of our contribution.

Happiness is not a state of mind but a way of being, "an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.