Quotes About Ethics

They keep saying that their kingdom is not of this world, then take everything they can lay their hands on.

Gli uomini non fanno mai il male così completamente ed entusiasticamente come quando lo fanno per convinzione religiosa.

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

Do we really have to talk about professionalism? Everyone here is a professional. A master builder who puts up a wall that hasn't collapsed is certainly acting professionally, but professionalism ought to be the norm, and we should only be talking about the dodgy builder who puts up a wall that doesn't collapse....This insistence on professionalism, that it is something special, makes it sound as if people are generally lousy workers.

Ca s? slujeÅŸti cu competen?? legea se cere s-o fi înc?lcat.

Philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world.

La dimensión ética empieza cuando entra en escena el otro. Toda ley, moral o jurídica, regula siempre relaciones interpersonales, incluidas las relaciones con ese Otro que la ley la impone.

The wise man must attack falsehood not only with his sword but also with his tongue

La ciencia no consiste sólo en saber lo que debe o puede hacerse, sino también en saber lo que podría hacerse aunque quizá no debiera hacerse.

Ahora bien, aun siendo estos casos virtuosos, como nos recuerda Brecht, también el odio hacia la injusticia desencaja el rostro.

El sabio debe velar de alguna manera los secretos que descubre, para evitar que otros hagan mal uso de ellos.

Gençler art?k hiçbir ÅŸey öÄŸrenmek istemiyorlar, bilim geriliyor, tüm dünya tepetaklak olmuÅŸ, körler körleri yönetiyor ve onlar? uçuruma sürüklüyorlar, kuÅŸlar, daha uçmay? öÄŸrenmeden yuvadan ayr?l?yor, eÅŸekler çal?yor, öküzler oynuyor.

E' virtù sopra la virtù dissimulare la virtù.

Ä°nsanlar? kendinden geçiren görüntüyle günahkâr say?klama aras?nda çoÄŸu kez tek bir ad?m vard?r.

Si se difundiera la idea de que, al contaminar el mundo, no solo se perjudica a las ballenas sino también (perdonen el tecnicismo) a la polla, creo que asistiríamos a repentinas conversiones al ecologismo.

Musa'ya inanan sevgili kardeslerim, Fransa krali sizi Hiristiyan oomaya zorluyorsa Hristiyan olun, baska turlu yapamazsiniz cunku, ama Musa'nin yasalarini yureklerinizde saklayin: Malinizi mulkunuzu elinizden aliyorlarsa, ogullarinizi tuccar olarak yetistirin ki, yavas yavas onlar da Hristiyanlarin mallarini mulklerini ellerinden alsinlar.

Öyleyse neden öÄŸrenmek istiyorsunuz? Çünkü bilim, yaln?zca insan?n yapmas? gerekeni ya da yapabileceÄŸini bilmesinden ibaret deÄŸildir; yapabileceÄŸini, ama belki de yapmamas? gerekenin bilinmesini de içerir.

Elie Wiesel used to say that those who believed that all things are permitted were not those who believed that God was dead, but those who thought they were God (a shortcoming common to dictators great and small).

Åžeytanla yap?lan anlaÅŸmalar?n güzel yan?, insan?n onlar? kiminle iÅŸ yapt???n? bile bile imzalamas?d?r. Yoksa Cehennem'le öldürülmenin nedeni nedir?

And 'poor' does not so much mean owning a palace or not; it means, rather, keeping or renouncing the right to legislate on earthly matters.

Parten del concepto de que el bien debe realizarse aquí, y no más allá de la tumba. Por lo cual, obran sólo para la conquista de este mundo.

Después de pasarme dos años entre humanistas que recitaban fórmulas para convencer a la naturaleza de hacer cosas que no tenía la menor intención de hacer, recibí noticas de Italia: mis antiguos compañeros, o al menos algunos de ellos, se dedicaban a dispararle a la nuca a los que no estuviesen de acuerdo con ellos, para convencer a la gente de que hiciese cosas que no tenía la menor intención de hacer.

But sometimes you have to speak because you feel the moral obligation to say something, not because you have the 'scientific' certainty that you are saying it in an unassailable way.

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must do or can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.