Quotes About Ethics

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.

And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.

Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.

That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

Thinking evil is making evil.

What is done out of love is beyond Good and Evil

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Man has been placed on that summit where he contains within him the source of self-impulsion toward good and evil in equal measure; the nexus of the principles within him is not a bond of necessity but of freedom. He stands at the dividing line; whatever he chooses will be his act, but he cannot remain in indecision because God must necessarily reveal himself and because nothing at all in creation can remain ambiguous.

Der romantische Imperativ fordert die Mischung aller Dichtarten. All Natur und Wissenschaft soll Kunstwerden—Kunst soll Natur werden und Wissenschaft. Imperativ: die Poesie soll sittlich und die Sittlichkeit sollpoetisch sein.

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

As the old saying goes, you can't spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN.

Do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

Our actions are part of who we are. It's not that we are inert things who do stuff. Rather, the stuff we do and who we are are inextricably woven together.

You've won all creation. It's yours to do with it as you please- and you discover what pleases you most is doing the right thing for all creation in moment after moment.

Because a lot of our philosophical stances these days are kind of half-assed. We're very bold in our proclamations of our own moral rectitude, but then we neglect to even keep our own toilets clean. You see a lot of that kind of thing. I used to see it all the time in my punk-rock days. Those guys were super-concerned with having the right political and philosophical views. But they never seemed to be able to keep their showers free from mold or