Quotes About Ethics

The point of politics is to keep multiple and irreducible goods in play, rather than yielding to some dream, Nazi or otherwise, of totality. —

But opposing evil requires inspiration by what is sound rather than by what is resonant.

I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.

For a woman the worst thing about a sperm bank is that sperm is no longer free. Just go into a bar, and a sperm container will try to pick you up.

Reputation. It cost something, but it was worth something too.

Don't do the things in life as duties. Take and do it as a RESPONSIBILITY.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

C'è un discorso che Gandhi fa nel 1909 in cui si guarda attorno e si chiede «Cos'è la vera civiltà? La civiltà nasce da un tipo di comportamento che indica all'uomo il sentiero del dovere [...], l'osservanza della moralità. Raggiungere la moralità significa raggiungere la padronanza della nostra mente e delle nostre passioni».

Quella che chiamiamo eufemisticamente "carne" sono in verità pezzi di cadaveri, di animali morti, morti ammazzati. Perché fare del proprio stomaco un cimitero?

In order for us to live comfortably with ourselves while living on unjust terms with others, we have to tell ourselves a story that makes us innocent.

I think that the thing you have to do is, people have to start being held accountable for their decisions. If somebody's not buying insurance, then they're going to have to be selling their car, or whatever it is to try to help cover that.

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.

it's tempting to start universities and build hospitals when you want to put a little gloss on your life as one of the greatest thieves in American history.

Why did the man who would become revered for generations as the Great Emancipator hesitate to do his "emancipating," and if it did take him so long, what is so "great" about that?

for Aristotle contemplation is the highest good that a life can achieve. It is the good he associates with the gods.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

The way to do away with war is for those who do not want war, who regard participation in it a sin, to refrain from fighting.

But any acquisition that doesn't correspond to the labour expended is dishonest