Quotes About Ethics

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Perhaps the world is not as a simple a place as I would like it to be. No one is following any of the principles that they are supposed to.

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded.

Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth

Bravery is standing with the truth and right

There are greater goals in life than material and sensual pleasures

Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.

When you remove the concept of reward and punishment on merit, the result is the utter destruction of social fabric.

A condemned poor man, if steals to feed his starving kid, is slammed into prison. Contrast this to a rich man's crime.

De hecho, no sé si realmente creía en sus teorías. Hoy me inclino a suponer que sí. Uno tiene que creer en algo para alcanzar tal grado de vileza

Een overlevingsstrategie die de morele grondvesten ondermijnt zou ik niet 'overleven' noemen maar 'zelfvernietiging', de aanvaarding van destructieve krachten.

el deber del hombre es ser feliz y si cumple con este deber en un grado ético elevado habrá llevado a cabo su cometido. Esto es del todo suficiente para una vida. ¿Es, además, «valioso»? Pero ¿qué es valioso salvo el conocimiento de la vida para nosotros mismos y el vivir para otro(s)?

Righteousness, according to Mencius, is a straight and narrow path which a man ought to take to regain the lost paradise.

Virtues are no less contagious than vices.

Call one a thief and he will steal": put a stigma on a calling and its followers adjust their morals to it, for it is natural that "the normal conscience," as Hugh Black says, "rises to the demands made on it, and easily falls to the limit of the standard expected from it.

As to strictly ethical doctrines, the teachings of Confucius were the most prolific source of Bushido.

Since you were begotten and nurtured and educated under us, dare you once to say you are not our offspring and servant, you and your fathers before you!" These are words which do not impress us as any thing extraordinary; for the same thing has long been on the lips of Bushido, with this modification, that the laws and the state were represented with us by a personal being. Loyalty is an ethical outcome of this political theory.

and this Socratic doctrine found its greatest exponent in the Chinese philosopher Wan Yang Ming, who never wearies of repeating, "To know and to act are one and the same.

Virtue and absolute power may strike the Anglo-Saxon mind as terms which it is impossible to harmonize.

Courage was scarcely deemed worthy to be counted among virtues, unless it was exercised in the cause of righteousness.

Indeed, the sense of shame seems to me to be the earliest indication of the moral consciousness of our race.

Alack the day when a state grows so powerful as to demand of its citizens the dictates of their conscience!