Quotes About Ethics

History has taught us that no society built upon the exploitation of any of its individuals can long endure

Anyone who needs a reward to be good isn't good. They just like rewards. Good people do the right thing because it's the right thing to do.

But the Bible says 'do not kill,'" Nessa reminded her grandmother. "The Commandments only apply to humans," said the older woman. "Nobody goes to hell for killing a monster.

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.

Clean up your acts, if you want the attention of good Women, start acting like good Men.

In the Western mind, any undemocratic political system that deprives citizens the ability to choose or remove a leader is by definition evil.

Some have accepted the Faustian bargain of maximizing today's earnings per share while operating under restrictions that jeopardize their future competitiveness. But that doesn't mean they're happy about it.

However, America also began to see its many Cold War allies in a new light, questioning their usefulness and seeing their flaws in sharper relief. Since it would have been seen as unethical (not to mention ungrateful) to use and then abandon allies, America needed an ethical justification. Under Jimmy Carter in the 1980s, America started bringing human rights into foreign policy conversations. By the 1990s, human rights were used as a tool to create distance from inconvenient or former allies.

A career takes more than talent. It takes character

I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post ' I remained an admirer.

Corruption should be regarded a disorder just like any other addictions

The more moral your life is the more you live for long ceteris paribus

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Simply put, what we expose as facts or opinions are moral choices that the pandemic has laid bare. They are made in the name of what we think is right or wrong and therefore define us as who we are.

The greatest peril of life lies in the fact that human food consists entirely of souls. All the creatures that we to kill and eat, all those that we have to strike down and destroy to make clothes for ourselves, have souls, souls that do not perish with the body and which must therefore be pacified lest they revenge themselves on us for taking away their bodies

One player practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

The personal practice of virtues was always deemed different from the hard action that politics sometimes necessitates.

The hangman is a disgrace to any civilized country.

Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger.

But man should abstain from judging his innocently cruel fellow creatures, for even if nature sometimes "shrieks against his creed", what pain does he himself not inflict upon the living creatures that he hunts for pleasure and not for food?

En fin, los buenos no siempre se libran, y este juego no es una excepción. Puede que sean los irresponsables quienes terminen ganando. Pero yo respeto a cualquiera que actúa de acuerdo con su conciencia, incluso a riesgo de morir y ser repudiado por todo el mundo.

Hell is having no option but the wrong one and take it" -Shuuya Nanahara