Quotes About Ethics

Joden moesten de Tora strikter naleven dan ooit tevoren. Het was niet langer voldoende geen moord te plegen, ze moesten ook hun woede inhouden. Niet alleen overspel was verboden, een man mocht zelfs niet begerig naar een vrouw kijken. De oude wetten van vergelding - een oog voor een oog en een tand voor een tand - werden opzij gezet: de joden moesten nu zelfs wie hen op de rechterwang sloeg, hun linkerwang toekeren en hun vijanden liefhebben.

the moral and spiritual imperatives of religion are important for humanity and should not be relegated unthinkingly to the scrap heap of history in the interests of an unfettered rationalism.

the anonymous Chinese author we know as Laozi pointed out that no matter how good his intentions, violence always recoils upon the perpetrator.

Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism. The

Furthermore, I argue that ethics is not simply about responsible actions in relation to human experiences of the world; rather, it is a question of material entanglements and how each intra-action matters in the reconfiguring of these entanglements, that is, it is a matter of the ethical call that is embodied in the very worlding of the world.

Ethics is not a geometrical calculation; others are never very far from us; they and we are co-constituted and entangled through the very cuts we help to enact. Cuts cut things together and apart. Cuts are not enacted from the outside, nor are they ever enacted once and for all.

if a person is willing to listen to gossip they are also willing to spread it.

In 2004, Jacques Derrida said that a change was under way. Torture damages the inflicter as well as the inflicted. It's no coincidence that one of the Abu Ghraib torturers came to the military directly from a job as a chicken processor. It might be slow, Derrida said, but eventually the spectacle of our abuse of animals will be intolerable to our sense of who we are.

Do unto others' is an unnatural, inhuman behavior. You can understand why so many churches and churchgoers say it but so few achieve it. It goes against something fundamental in our natures. And this, then, is the human tragedy—that the common humanity we share is fundamentally based on the denial of a common shared humanity.

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science

An attack on SeaWorld might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.

No one with real integrity tries to sell their integrity to you. People with real integrity hardly notice they have it.

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. When humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science.)

Don't side with assholes," she said. Her voice was very not chill.

the world runs on the fuel of an endless, fathomless animal misery.

I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. A

Do onto others as you would have others do unto you' is our highest, most developed morality, Dr. Sosa said. And really the only one necessary; all the others flow from that; you don't need Ten Commandments. But if you do believe, as I do, that morality starts with God, then you have to wonder why He simultanelously hardwired us against it.

The white culture rewarded cruelty with honor and friendship.

It might be slow, Derrida said, but eventually the spectacle of our abuse of animals will be intolerable to our sense of who we are.

If we give ourselves permission to say this death justifies that one, then we truly are lost.

Not everyone is going to like you, son. And good people don't do good so that they'll win popularity contests. They do good because its the right thing to do.

Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities. -Aras

I don't know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It's the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out for your comrades.

Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available....