Quotes About Ethics

La ética es como el amor. Se vive en presente, las consecuencias no importan. Si uno piensa en el pasado es porque ya perdió la pasión...

Iris praecepta sunt haec: honest vvere, alterum nn laedere, suum cuique tribuere. (Justinian Inst. 1.1:

Arbor bona frcts bons facit; mala autem arbor frcts mals facit. (Matthew 7.17:

Suum cuique pulchrum est.

How do they find out with the experiments?' '...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.' 'But isn't that unkind to the animal?' 'Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.

Well,' replied Tony, 'I think [Christ's] line would be the same as it always has been - that [sex without marriage] is understandable and forgivable, but wrong to the extent that it's less than the best.

Rowf's rump slid suddenly forward as smoothly as a turd from a healthy anus.

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they'll work.

Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is...? ...ourselves.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world.

Kimse kendi karakterine özgü olmayan bir ÅŸey yapmaz.

Ain't none of you ever been stuck in the mud and needed a push? I won't ask you how you can be for this and still call yourselves Christians, because one of you would have some kind of answer out of what I call the Holy-Joe-Do-It-My-Way Bible. But, Jeezly-Crow! How can you read the parable of the Good Samaritan on Sunday and then say you're for a thing like this on Monday night?

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

Ellos son animales, de acuerdo, pero ¿por qué crees que eso nos convierte a nosotros en seres humanos?

They're animals, all right. But why are you so sure that makes us human beings?

Are you decent? Richards asked. Yes! she stormed. isn't that why you picked on me? Because I was defenseless and... decent?... If you're so decent, how come you have six thousand New Dollars to buy this fancy car while my little girls dies of flu?

Eindeutige Tatsachen sind, wie immer, Verhandlungssache – das lernte man schnell im Anwaltsberuf

Had I a thousand daughters, by Heaven! I'd as soon have them taught the black art as their alphabet!

Don't talk rot, Whitney, said Rainsford. You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?

The truth is, the only difference between good girls and bad girls is: Good girls just haven't been caught yet.

Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction).

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.