Quotes About Ethics

It is our duty to help those who need our help; but it cannot be our duty to make others happy, since this does not depend on us, and since it would only too often mean intruding on the privacy of those towards whom we have such amiable intentions.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

Sosyal çevremizi, ?iddetten uzak ve bar??ç?l bir biçimde yap?land?rma arzusu, bir dü? de?ildir. Bu, insanl?k için ihtimal dahilinde olan ve biyolojik bak?? aç?s?ndan bak?ld???nda, ku?kusuz gerekli bir hedeftir.

Sonuç olarak daha iyi bir dünya aray???, ba?ka insanlar?n, bir dü?ünce u?runa ya?amlar?n? istemeyerek feda etmeyece?i bir dünya aray??? olmal?d?r.

Frankenstein's monster speaks: the computer. But where are its words coming from? Is the wisdom on those cold lips our own, merely repeated at our request? Or is something else speaking?—A voice we have always dreamed of hearing?

The conditional programs inherently use poverty as a threat. That's Cruel. Shouldn't we be ashamed of ourselves?

psychology is practiced by a bunch of well-paid incompetents.

But if you're going to think about your past, rather than dwell on the reasons you shouldn't have done something, remember the reasons you did. I mean, everything we do in life has some element of right and wrong to it.

Leadership requires you to live above board

We cannot turn away," Miss Woolf told her, "we must get on with our job and we must bear witness." What did that mean, Ursula wondered. "It means," Miss Woolf said, "that we must remember these people when we are safely in the future." "And if we are killed?" "Then others must remember us .

I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them that does the evil.

If we prosper only through the suffering or death of another, then that is not prosperity.

Ain't nothing in this world just for the taking...A man got to pay a fair price for taking...Matter of give a little, take a little.

The righteousness of the flawed is frightening.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator. —Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?

No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.

Patriarchal religion and ethics tend to lump the female and sex together as if the whole burden of the onus and stigma it attaches to sex were the fault of the female alone. Thereby sex, which is known to be unclean, sinful, and debilitating, pertains to the female, and the male identity is preserved as a human, rather than a sexual one.

Luminous Processes,' declared the local paper, 'seems to put profits before people.' How quickly we forget.

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits,' said Milton Friedman back in 1970, and the mainstream business world willingly believed him.

In politics, money talks—when it must in public, but preferably in private, with hidden handshakes, closed-door meetings and under-the-table kickbacks.