Quotes About Ethics

Hai paura che le nostre anime caschino nelle mani del Diavolo? - avrebbero chiesto quelli della Città. - No: che non abbiate anima da dargli.

Thus the days went by at Terralba, and our sensibilities became numbed, as we felt ourselves lost between an evil and a virtue equally inhuman.

When you kill, you always kill the wrong man.

Bob" can handle the aliens, but we must police ourselves.

W szale?stwach szlachetnej pasji wi?cej jest sprawiedliwo?ci i nadziei ni? w ponurych rygorach tego ?wiata.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

C. S. Lewis once wrote that man has two clues to the meaning of the universe. One is the knowledge of a law that he did not make but is obligated to keep; the other is the knowledge that he does not and cannot keep it.

Only good was created. Every evil thing is a good thing ruined. There are no other ways to get an evil thing.

A prominent businessman once replied to a question: "If I had to name the one most important quality of a top manager, I would say, personal integrity.

Our social and political tasks, if we take them seriously, loom larger than life. Yet infinite responsibility destroys a human being because he is only a man and not god." ~ p.23

When life gives you lemons, please, just don't squirt them in other people's eyes.

Besides, morality is not about whether the human race survives, but about what kind of survival it gets. We marry; guppies don't. We don't eat our young; they do. Yet neither species is in danger of extinction.

To many people today, however, rights are something to protect us against the demands of morality.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

morality would be undermined without a belief in divine judgment, but

Justice requires acute perception of what is really due to the other person; in

A secular person treats as the Highest Standard something that isn't the Highest Standard.

Or perhaps the syndrome we are witnessing is preemptive capitulation: If we reduce our conscience to rubble before the bad men get here, they will have nothing to destroy.

Even in the West, moreover, although the ethical ideal has been absolute monogamy, the legal norm has been merely relative monogamy, which is also known as successive polygamy.

How conscience tells us that we ought to be fair, nobody knows. This we can say: we don't know it just from being told, we don't know it from the five senses, and we don't know it by inference from prior knowledge. We just know it. The knowledge is "underived.

Those who do not accept conscience as a teacher must face it as an accuser.

If it really were impossible to derive an ought from the is of the human design, then the practice of medicine would make no sense. Natural

deliberation cannot be merely an extension of sense, for we are capable of being attracted by non-sensible objects like knowledge and justice. Still

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.