Quotes About Ethics

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.

If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one's wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.