Quotes About Ethics

Talvez o sentimento do mal tivesse ficado anestesiado, confundido com costumes e ordens sociais

The behavior of the pigeon is beyond reproach, but the mountain cuckoo?

when we consider the purchase of anything, to ask ourselves, both as producers and consumers: Is this purchase necessary? Do I really need a new outfit to do yoga? Can I do well enough with something I already have? And will it do more than one thing?

The goal was to teach every employee in the company our business and environmental ethics and values.

Confessions of an Eco-Warrior

and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)

You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.

But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?

It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?

Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in particular, or from many places. So every novelist's literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy—it's always an attempt to get the reader to care about people who are not the same as he or she is.

You want to believe there are limits to what money can make happen, lines it can't cross.

It's a question of what love gives you the right to do.

then after a few miles you arrived at a new idea, that wealth and morality are in essence the same thing, for the more money a person had, then the more goodness—or potential for goodness—a person possessed.

Well, they got that habit from us. We always wanted to be seen to be right. To be on the right side of an issue. More so even than doing anything. Being right was always the most important thing.

E in passato, si chiese Archie, la gente imbrogliava di meno? Era piu' onesta, lasciava la porta di casa aperta, affidava i figli ai vicini, faceva visite agli amici, aveva il conto aperto con il macellaio?

software is not neutral. Different software embeds different philosophies, and these philosophies, as they become ubiquitous, become invisible.

Actually creating an animal just so it can die -- it's like being God! I mean personally I'm a Hindu, yeah? I'm not religious or nothing, but you know, I believe in the sanctity of life, yeah? And these people, like, program the mouse, plot its every move, yeah, when it's going to have kids, when it's going to die. It's just unnatural .

I don't think the argument in favour of libraries is especially ideological or ethical. I would even agree with those who say it's not especially logical. I think for most people it's emotional. Not logos or ethos but pathos.

Peele gets to the core of what contemporary entitlement looks like—concern with one's personal rights combined with non-interest in one's duties

You play grown-up long enough and you lose your perspective on right and wrong

A moral compass does not cease to function because one's surroundings are new and strange, or else it is no compass at all.

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there

I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.