Quotes About Ethics

Pukeutumisen moraalinen merkitys. Pukeutumisen tuottamat tyydytykset.

Ce n'est que par les beaux sentiments qu'on parvient à la fortune.

On n'est jamais excusable d'être méchant, mais il y a quelque mérite à savoir qu'on l'est; et le plus irréparable des vices est de faire le mal par bêtise.

I am unable to comprehend how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

Some morals tended to keep people slaves in factories, in churches and true to the State. Other morals simply made good sense. It was like a garden filled with poisoned fruit and good fruit. You had to know which to pick and eat, which to leave alone.

cunt and Kant and a happy home

If there's anything worse than a whore it's a bore.

All's fair in hate and Hollywood.

the worst sin in the world is when the poor try to rob the poor. the enemy is fairly obvious, why weaken our ranks?

Think of being 80 and fucking a 18 yeard old girl. If there was any way to cheat the game of death, that was it.

A whore is a woman who takes more than she gives. A man who takes more than he gives is called a businessman.

They experimented on the poor and if that worked they used the treatment on the rich. And if it didn't work, there would still be more poor people left over to experiment upon.

We have an opening for a dishwasher. Fifty cents an hour and you get to grab Rita's ass every once in a while.

Trying to be good made me sick.

La gente amoral suele considerarse más libre, pero a menudo carecen de la capacidad de sentir o de amar.

when a man puts that uniform on that he is the paid protector of things of the present time. he is here to see that things stay the way they are. if you like the way things are, then all cops are good cops. if you don't like the way things are, then all cops are bad cops.

think of the adherents of these two perspectives as Wizards and Prophets—Wizards unveiling technological fixes, Prophets decrying the consequences of our heedlessness. Borlaug has become a model for the Wizards. Vogt was in many ways the founder of the Prophets.

For aught known to the contrary, the good farmers of Yorkshire are, in a great measure, indebted to the bones of their children for their daily bread.

Vogt sees the city reaching across the dry lake bed to engulf the last fields and streams and says: Hold it back! We cannot let our species overwhelm the natural systems on which we all depend! Borlaug sees the pitiful scrim of wheat and maize on the tract of land and says: How can we give people a better chance to thrive? Vogt wants to protect the land; Borlaug wants to equip its occupants.

What this suggests is that, contrary to economists, the discount rate accounts for only part of our relationship to the future. People are concerned about future generations. Even if the logic is hard to parse, they think that humanity's fate is worth more than an apartment.

Young man, if I could as easily wipe from my conscience the stain of killing you, as I can this spittle from my face, you should not live another minute.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives—of approving of some and disapproving of others.