Quotes About Ethics

Human nature is disposed to do good.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.

We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.