Quotes About Ethics

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.

F. once said: At sixteen I stopped fucking faces. I had occasioned the remark by expressing disgust at his latest conquest, a young hunchback he had met while touring an orphanage. F. spoke to me that day as if I were truly one of the underprivileged; or perhaps he was not speaking to me at all when he muttered: Who am I to refuse the universe?

As he died to make men holy, let us die to make things cheap.

I read the bill of human rights And some of it was true But there wasn't any burden left So I'm laying it on you

No soy un santo ni un asesino; no amo ni mato. Hago el amor y arranco las alas de las moscas.

leadership is the medium through which one expresses one's deepest values.

The means of many out way the means of the few or one.

In any compromise between food and poison," Ayn Rand writes, "it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

The deepest roots of this modern shift are twofold: in epistemology, the romanticist advocacy of feeling as superior to reason; in ethics, the altruist advocacy of others as superior to self. The result is a view of morality in which the ruling standard is: the feelings of others.

The principles of morality are a product not of feeling, but of cognition.

You are employed by a suspicious number of douchebags!

Survival breeds its own brand of morality," Silvio said.

Anyone who doesn't need company is either greater than a man, and is a God, or lesser than a man, and is a beast.17 —Aristotle, as quoted by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

It is just as easy to use a good principle for bad ends as it is to use a bad principle for good ends.

It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

There's a proverb, a maxim, that runs, 'The dead man is dead; let's give a hand to the living.' Now, you say that to a man from the North, and he visualizes the scene of an accident with one dead and one injured man; it's reasonable to let the dead man be and to set about saving the injured man. But a Sicilian visualizes a murdered man and his murderer, and the living man who's to be helped is the murderer.

It was strange to think that so much humane painstaking care and exertion was being introduced into the business of hanging people; that the most insane deed on earth was being committed with such an air of simplicity and reasonableness.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway

A woman's character is her lack of character.