Quotes About Ethics

Dëshira për rend është njëherësh dëshirë për të vdekur, sepse jeta është vazhdimisht shkelje e rendit. Ose, e kundërta, dëshira për rend është vjega e virtytshme përmes së cilës urrejtja e njeriut për njeriun, i përligj keqtrajtimet.

Az igazi jóság csak olyasvalaki iránt nyivlánulhat meg kristáltisztán és szabadon, aki semmiféle erÅ't nem képvisel. Az emberiség legalapvetÅ'bb, igazi erkölcsi próbaköve, a viszonya azokhoz, akik ki vannak neki szolgáltatva: az állatokhoz. S itt vallott az ember végzetes kudarcot, annyira végzeteset, hogy az összes többi ebbÅ'l fakadt.

Ihmiskunta on lehmien loinen samalla tavoin kuin lapamato on ihmisen loinen. Ihmiskunta on imeytynyt lehmien utareisiin iilimadon tavoin. Ihminen on lehmän loinen, niin luultavasti määrittelisi ihmisen eläinopissa ei-ihminen.

A verdadeira bondade do homem só pode se manifestar com toda a pureza e com toda a liberdade em relação àqueles que não representam nenhuma força. O verdadeiro teste moral da humanidade (o mais radical, situado num nível tão profundo que escapa a nosso olhar) são as relações com aqueles que estão à nossa mercê: os animais.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything, Sabina thought. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

Dios les dio a los hombres la libertad y por eso podemos suponer que al fina y al cabo no es responsable de los crímenes humanos. Pero el único responsable de la mierda es aquel que creó al hombre.

La verdadera prueba de la moralidad de la humanidad, la más honda, radica en su relación con aquellos que están a su merced: los animales

Teresa las mira con simpatía y piensa que la humanidad vive a costa de las vacas, del mismo modo en que la tenía vive a costa del hombre: se ha enganchado a su teta como una sanguijuela. El hombre es un parásito de la vaca, así definiría probablemente un no-hombre al hombre en su zoología

La mierda es un problema teológico más complejo que el mal. Dios les dio a los hombres la libertad y por eso podemos suponer que al fin y al cabo no es responsable de los crímenes humanos. Pero el único responsable de la mierda es aquel que creó al hombre

Deserves' is an impossible thing to decide. No one deserves anything. Thank God we don't get what we deserve.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm; those who control the power today may not tomorrow; and, more important, what one man regards as good, another may regard as harm.

Social responsibility is a fundamentally subversive doctrine in a free society, and have said that in such a society, there is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

The most harm of all is done when power is in the hands of people who are absolutely persuaded of the purity of their instincts-- and the purity of their intentions

The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.

It's always so attractive to be able to do good at somebody else's expense

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.

I am beginning to think that love itself is never wrong. It is what love can drive people to do that is the problem.

I love shooting guns. I would never shoot an animal or hunt, but I probably would be a very good hit woman. It's hand-in-glove for me.

Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.

I love to cook.. but nothing that had to die.

I hate to say it, and Apple never likes it, but I love anything that's hacker oriented. I don't like passing it onto others, or getting things for free. I don't like stealing music one bit, at all.