Quotes About Ethics

I consider the indiscriminate propagation of self-help to be morally unacceptable... self-help is the opposite of autonomous or vernacular life.

Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital - pilots fly them, but aren't in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects - the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular - killing people, for example.

I never understood why movies don't have to be as responsible, or the responsibility stops with Rated R. I feel like music, you gotta - you put the sticker on it, you make the clean version, then you're explaining yourself, and then you have to do charities to offset what you just said. No one else has to do this!

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.

les mauvaises herbes poussent, elles aussi; preuve qu'on peut devenir grand sans cesser d'être mauvais.

Un crime que son auteur ne peut supporter, ce n'est plus le crime de personne

Tik?jimas, nors ir labai gilus, niekad nesti pilnutinis. J? reikia be paliovos kurstyti ar bent jau stengtis negriauti.

Nu sunt atât de laÈ™ ca s? îmi fie team? c? fac pe cineva s? sufere atunci când trebuie s-o fac.

I am therefore responsible for myself and for everyone else, and I am fashioning a certain image of man as I choose him to be In choosing myself, I choose man.

it stands behind me like a boneless ghost and depends on me alone to lend it my flesh.

È vero che non sei responsabile di quello che sei, ma sei responsabile di quello che fai di ciò che sei.

Ma liberté s'arrête ou commence celle d'autrui. 

In the second place, this is the only theory that endows man with any dignity, and the only one that does not turn him into an object.

La justice est une affaire d'hommes

Demokratische Politik kann sich nicht in Moraldebatten erschöpfen, lebensfähig ist sie immer nur als Projekt.

What remains difficult to fathom is how White, a president of the American Historical Association, justified to himself his grotesquely unhistorical (mis) use of sources—from resorting to the romanticized fictions of Washington Irving for "facts" about Columbus to the strategic truncation of a quotation from St. Augustine to make the African Doctor appear to say something exactly opposite to what he meant.

And here I always thought morality was useless

my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.

Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?

the idea of sex is no idea at all. Imagine doing those things—How can you? Where's your sense of dignity?

Why should I let anything stand in the way of life, liberty, and the pursuit of vivisection?

I find others, those who prey on the innocent and do not play by the rules, and I make them go away in small, carefully wrapped pieces.

I think I have a right to know my husband killed somebody," Rita said. "And he's cheating on me?" she added, as if killing might be overlooked, but cheating was something truly despicable. It was not quite the proper order of our society's priorities as I had come to understand them, but this was not the time to debate contemporary ethical concepts.