Quotes About Ethics

There is absolutely no single aspect of one's personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not a skill at which men typically are asked to excel. I believe empathy is not only the core of art, literature and music, but should also be at the core of society, from ethics to economics.

Seguiré siendo testigo aun cuando no haya un solo ser humano que me pida mi estimonio

Darf der Mensch wohl alles tun, was recht ist, oder muß er sich damit begnügen, daß nur alles recht ist, was er tut?

Wenn die Menschen gewisse Exemplare ihrer eigenen Gattung aus Bosheit oder aus Unverstand, aus Gleichgültigkeit oder aus Angst vernichten müssen, dann fällt uns, bestimmt, vernichtet zu werden, eine unglaubliche Fähigkeit zu. Die Freiheit, die Menschen zu lieben und uns selbst nicht zu hassen.

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

By 1971, 58 percent of Americans had concluded that the war in Vietnam was not just a mistake, but immoral.

Kierkegaard distingue trois stades de l'existence : Le stade esthétique (jouissance, plaisir) ; Le stade éthique (métier, mariage) ; Le stade religieux.

Socrate constitue donc un tournant dans la manière de penser : c'est lui, en effet, qui concentra la réflexion sur les problèmes pratiques du bien et de la justice, se détournant des spéculations cosmologiques auxquelles ses prédécesseurs s'étaient tous adonnés.

Aucun individu ne pouvait posséder la justice; seule Maât, au corps aussi léger qu'une plume d'autruche, connaissait le poids des actes. Aux magistrats de la servir avec la tendresse d'un enfant pour sa mère. (...) - Qui êtes-vous donc, Pazair? - Un juge d'Égypte. (Justification du titre de la série)

If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Another, more basic reason is that even being able to know or define in the first place what hurts or helps other people often itself requires reference to certain moral standards and understandings of what is good and bad.

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

Not all who become leaders crave the power that goes with it.

Upright and do right make all right.

If you going to steal a book thought, you should at least take the nicest one, otherwise what's the point?

Upright and do right makes all right.

I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But civilization has rules, and I've learned them well -- never be helpless, never be sick, never be poor.

If our legal counsel, Bob Rutherford, works for Satan, Satan should buy Bob a better toupee.

Surely if men are sufficient masters of things to build a howitzer they ought to know better than to destroy each other with it. — Stewart Gore-Browne, from Arras, 1916.

Don't call humans rats—rats are superior.

He was incapable of nursing an injustice which would cost him good living to repay, an evil thought which it would undo him to give back, or even sorrow in his bosom; and tragedy itself could not worm its way by any means into his heart.

I realize, of course, that selling newspapers is a business, and that gathering news and presenting it truthfully must be a difficult and competitive task. However, in a story of a highly controversial nature, some newsmen are prone to alter facts and present them in an exciting, provocative way to a panting public, without always following the unvarnished truth.

The New York Enquirer, a journalistic monstrosity that specializes in epic squalor. Incredibly, this monument to obscenity continues to appear on newsstands week after week.