Quotes About Ethics

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.

We may agree that genocidal violence cannot be understood as rational; yet, we need to understand it as thinkable.

The moral certainty about preventing another genocide imparts a moral justification to the pursuit of power with impunity.

According to Maimonides, the moral faculty would, in fact, not have been required, if man had remained a purely rational being. It is only through the senses that "the knowledge of good and evil" has become indispensable. The narrative of Adam's fall is, according to Maimonides, an allegory representing the relation which exists between sensation, moral faculty, and intellect.

It is better to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

There are lots of good cops around. Dumb guys who are good cops. Inflexible, limited, tough, self-satisfied types who are all good cops. It would be better if there were a few more good guys who were cops." His

Cada ave com as asas estendidas é um livro de duas folhas aberto no céu. Feio crime é roubar ou destruir essa miúda biblioteca de Deus. - o homem que calculava

El hombre sólo vale por lo que sabe. Saber es poder. Los sabios educan con el ejemplo, y nada hay que conquiste al espíritu humano más profundamente que el ejemplo (...) Socrates, filósofo griego, afirmaba con el peso de la autoridad enorme: "Sólo es útil el conocimiento que nos hace mejores". Séneca, otro pensador famoso, decía incrédulo: "¿Qué importa saber qué es una línea recta, si no se sabe lo que es la rectitud?".

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

man is not a man, until he stands for somthing good

You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle?

Journalism equals intellectual male prostitution of speech and writing

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

human beings are condemned to live in two ethical and behavioral worlds at once -the morality of empathy for and reciprocity with ingroups, and cold-hearted team aggression aimed at outgroups.

The evidence of history is that no advance which can be applied to the killing of other human beings goes unused.