Quotes About Ethics

It's not whether animals will survive, it's whether man has the will to save them.

I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.