Quotes About Ethics

In the Gospel, there is a sentence that expresses the same ethical imperative in a more fascinating way: "Blessed are the poor in spirit: the reign of God is theirs" (Matt. 5:3). But who are the poor? The poor are those who have nothing to defend, who are detached from those things that they seem to possess, so that their lives are not dedicated to affirming their own possession.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried

Better a shamed face than a stained heart,' Teresita announced.

Las instituciones de seguridad se han deteriorado por los efectos combinados del dinero de los traficantes, la ausencia de una ética de servicio a la ciudadanía y la irresponsabilidad política de partidos y gobernantes pasados y presentes.

Sex without sin is like an egg without salt.

The only reason to sign [petitions] is to assuage the conscience of the signatory.

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar.

When he saw the child of some prostitute throw stones at a crowd, Diogenes shouted to him, "Take care that you don't hit your father!

From Hunayn ibn-Ishak (Diogenes,8), we learn about his view of women and education: when he saw a man teaching a girl how to read and write, he advised him not to make a bad thing even worse.

Conquering cities may not be held against kings, but kicking like an ass should be.

Schopenhauer once said: the life of one dog may be worth more than the lives of many human beings.

From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.

Someone who could get up in the morning, make coffee, choose what to wear, and then go out and cold-bloodedly put a total stranger to death. Did you have to be some kind of anomalous, psychopathic freak to do that? Did you have to be born that way? Or could any woman, correctly programmed, be turned into a professional executioner?

Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.

Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.

If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place.

Studies have found similar statistics regarding young men's belief that they have the right to force a female to have sex if they have spent a substantial amount of money on the evening's entertainment or if the woman started wanting sex but then changed her mind. These studies point to the importance of focusing on changing the entitled attitudes of abusers, rather than attempting to find something wrong in their individual psychology.

The outcome of the way he argues is that he escapes ever accepting responsibility for what he does. To his unethical way of thinking, you are the cause of everything he does.

abuse is a problem of values, not of psychology.