Quotes About Ethics

This was a strong point if you thought that Annan's disapproval of poverty and racism was ever likely to diminish either of those things.

Many attempt without success to make up for their lack of talent with defects of character.

when virtue had been declared a crime, there was no refuge even in reticence.

The more nobly behaved the family, the less chance it stood.

What is the use of being moral in a night-cellar, or wise in Bedlam? —WILLIAM HAZLITT,

Accusing your own mother of adultery to save your skin is creativity of a kind so special it can almost be called a talent.

Mankind in the Christian era possesses one huge advantage over the ancients: a bad conscience. —EGON FRIEDELL,

Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

la novela tiene que ser la fotografía que estereotipe los vicios y las virtudes de un pueblo,

If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be barred from the public libraries and he woukd be ostracized by society.

Then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak.

Because Chamberlain, Moore, and Winters were leaders of character first, competence second, and courage third.

Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut -- Animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

Wo die Moral sich nicht überall einnistet. Ich habe einen Sittenrichter geboren.

A sense of share is not a bad moral compass.

just because you can you does not mean you have to

Subjects in the experiments were sometimes unwitting civilians. At other times they were soldiers, prisoners, mental patients, sex offenders, cancer patients and other individuals who were unwitting, or who could not give meaningful informed consent.

The Tuskeegee Syphilis Study is relevant to mind control in several ways. It establishes that a large network of doctors and organizations were willing to participate in, fund and condone grossly unethical medical experimentation into the 1970's. This is the general setting for psychiatric participation in mind control and creation of the Manchurian Candidate.

The Study proves that such experiments resulted in serious damage to study subjects and their children. Finally, the Tuskeegee Syphilis Study proves that considerable external pressure is often required before the medical profession takes the necessary action to terminate such experimentation.

The medical profession and the leading academic institutions where mind control research was done have not yet provided a meaningful public accounting, financial or ethical, of this experimentation.

I made the mistake of thinking that condemning other people's misdeed somehow made me virtuous.

Cruelty could be designed-out. It's advertising is deficient.

The financial world as moral example, she thought. Well, wonders would never cease

How much of us is what we do?