Quotes About Ethics

Si nous partons du postulat que les hommes sont à éduquer, nous pouvons aussi bien dire que, manquant d'éducation, voire d'humanisme, il conviendrait de ne pas leur laisser les rênes du commandement de la chose publique.

Wealth without goodness is a worthless increase, and goodness needs substance.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

But we have arrived at a glistening, smug day when nobody much sins, and those that do are prone to call it something else.

We have become the revisionist society. We rewrite history in favor of viewpoints. We rewrite ethics in favor of "what's right is what makes you feel good after." Political correctness puts Jesus and Buddha on the same low shelf. Gender inclusivity has us tied up in proper pronouns. Since God goes undefined, His expectations have been missing for some time, and sin is what you do that hurts others.

Como podia alguém justificar as ações mais perversas com a ideia de que tinha carta branca de Deus?

How can you humans actually believe yourselves superior to any truly sentient being? Look at you - self-styled demigods, mired in your own filthy social excrement, possessed of vomitous morals. You kill each other with unnatural impunity, preying upon the weal and helpless... not from necessity, but for gain. Name one other species that maims and destroys to gain glittering trinkets that will not fill one's belly.

Si quitásemos a los toros la ciencia cierta de acabar sus nobles, sus violentos cuatro años con tres palmos de acero cruzándoles las entrañas, los toros, como flores segadas, no serían sino el bello recuerdo de una estampa de un cimbrearse al viento

La fidelidad a los demás, si no coincide, como una moneda con otra moneda, con la violenta y propia fidelidad al dictado de nuestra conciencia, no es maña de mayor respeto que la disciplina – o los reflejos condicionados – del caballo del circo.

Yo, señor, no soy malo, aunque no me faltarían motivos para serlo.

Yo sigo clasificando a la humanidad —para mi uso, que es el que me importa, y que Dios me perdone— en amigos e hijos de puta.

If a child is kidnapped from hell and carried to heaven, should we condemn the kidnapper?

honesty should never be sacrificed!

That in the end, beauty does not matter. Character is more important.

I consider myself a good Christian. I go to church every Sunday. I do charitable work. I am kind to children and animals. I don't lie, cheat, or steal. I believe I am a good person. And I will not be thought sinful simply because I take pleasure in the man I love.

Let us weep," Rondon would tell them, "for I loved this man who has perished for my sake. But I command you to do as he did. Never shoot." Rondon believed that his mission in protecting and pacifying the Indians was larger than his own life, larger than any of their lives. He would rather die than surrender his ideals, and he obliged his men to follow suit.

I so much despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme.

We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.

What made pigs different? Why were they bred for food and held in captivity, while dogs and cats were welcomed into our homes and treated like family? Aside from physicality, we could see no difference between her and our dogs.