Quotes About Ethics

Ethics has to recognize the truth, recognized in unethical thought, that egoism comes before altruism. The acts required for continued self-preservation, including the enjoyment of benefits achieved by such acts, are the first requisites to universal welfare. Unless each duly cares for himself, his care for all others is ended by death; and if each thus dies, there remain no others to be cared for.

M?c Ä'ích t?i th??ng c?a giáo d?c không ph?i là ki?n th?c mà là hành Ä'á»™ng.

Der Lebensschutz des potentiellen Opfers soll mehr wiegen als die Menschenwürde des potenziellen Täters.

Wer die rechtsstaatlichen Grenzen von Fall zu Fall verschieben will, der hebt sie auf.

Das Feindstrafrecht betrachtet sein Subjekt als Sphinx: halb Mensch, halb Tier.

Die Folter war [...] praktizierte Schutzpflicht des Souveräns für seine Untertanen.

Foltern zerstört die zivile Basis des Zusammenlebens.

conversion is a necessary and moral duty for every man.

Evolution is dismissive of the eternity of moral duty and moral laws.

Thus the true, the good and the beautiful which ethical culture seeks can only come to perfection when the absolute good is at the same time the almighty, divine will, which not only prescribes the good in the moral law, but also works it effectually in man himself. The heteronomy of law and the autonomy of man are reconciled only by this theonomy.

Ethical culture must be a philosophy of revelation or it cannot exist.

Philosophy arose out of religion,

If history is to be truly history, if it is to realize values, universally valid values, we cannot know this from the facts in themselves, but we borrow this conviction from philosophy, from our view of life and of the world — that is to say, from our faith. Just as there is no physics without metaphysics, there is no history without philosophy, without religion and ethics.

if the moral law or the ideal good indeed exists outside of us, then it must be grounded in and be one with the Godhead.

In the same way, any ethical system which aspires to be true ethics and to bear a normative and teleological character, not falling into merely a description of habits and customs, is forced to seek the support of metaphysics.

Christian ethics maintains that the whole man must be good in intellect and will, heart and conscience. To do good is a duty and a desire, a task and a privilege, and thus the work of love. Love is therefore the fulfilling of the law.

Atheism is not proper to man by nature, but develops at a later stage of life, on the ground of philosophical reflection; like scepticism, it is an intellectual and ethical abnormality, which only confirms the rule. By nature every man believes in God.

Metaphysics, the belief in the absolute as a holy power, always forms the foundation of ethics.

I do not believe abortion should be legal.

It's not Planned Parenthood. No, it's planned genocide.

Sprookje Er was eens een man die altijd rechtvaardig was.

Critici zijn beroepshalve verkeerd-lezers. Het begint er al mee dat lezen natuurlijk nooit een beroep mag worden; je bent ook geen beroepseter of beroepswandelaar. Het is onethisch. Lezen doe je voor je plezier.

Without the law commanding good there could be no evil. But the same law makes it possible for the creature to exist. Without the law man would sink into nothingness; the law determines his humanity.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.