Quotes About Ethics

Il est donc possible d'introduire une distinction au milieu des héros et des saints : entre ceux qui désirent que les êtres humains soient les bénéficiaires de leur action – et ceux qui les oublient, n'aspirant qu'à avoir un comportement conforme à l'idéal d'héroïsme ou de sainteté. Kolbe

morale. Enfin, même si l'on pouvait observer une relation entre souffrance et morale, je ne vois pas quelle espèce de précepte on devrait en tirer : personne ne peut s'arroger le droit de recommander aux autres d'aspirer au malheur pour devenir plus vertueux.

When 'all is permitted' in the fight against terror, a counter-terrorist starts to become indistinguishable from the initial terrorist. Furthermore, all the terrorists in the world think they are counter-terrorists, merely responding to a prior act of terror. They are not the only ones: it is always possible, and easy, to find a prior violence that supposedly justifies our present violence. But, on this way of reckoning, war will never end.

Civilization is a horizon which we can approach, while barbarity is a background from which we seek to move away; neither condition can be entirely identified with particular beings. It consists of acts and attitudes that are barbarian or civilized, not individuals or peoples.

Comment se réjouir de la victoire sur un ennemi hideux si pour le vaincre il a fallu devenir comme lui? ("La peur des barbares")

When 'all is permitted' in the fight against terror, a counter-terrorist starts to become indistinguishable from the initial terrorist.

Someone asked me, "What do you have to say about Rajneesh after his death?" I said that the world has never seen such a pimp nor will it ever see one in the future. He combined Western therapies, the Tantric system, and everything that you could find in the books. He made a big business out of it. He took money from the boys; he took money from girls, and kept it for himself. He is dead and so we don't say anything. Nil nisi bonum (Of the dead speak not unless it be good)

Vegetarianism for what? For some spiritual goals? One form of life lives off another. That's a fact, whether you like it or not.

I don't have any moral position. Society, which has created all these sociopaths, has invented morality to protect itself from them. Count me out.

The very motivation, the drive behind our demand to understand the laws of nature is to use them for the purpose of continuing the human species at the expense of every other form of life on this planet.

Yoksul halk?n?n ya?ama sava??na gözlerini kapay?p cami minberinden cennet öyküleri say?klayanlar m? uygarl?k temsilcisi olacaklar?

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Chiar dac? Dumnezeu nu exist?, s? tr?im ca ?i cum ar exista.

Humanity will one day be defined, not by the gifts we possess but the virtues we lack.

"Idleness is the beginning of all vices."

It will do no good to argue if you're in the wrong, & if you're right--you don't need to.

You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it

I have half a conscience to go ahead and do it, and feel guilty afterwards

Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way that is consistent with these values.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty

Things in law tend to be black and white. But we all know that some people are a little bit guilty, while other people are guilty as hell