Quotes About Ethics

Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor?

The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.

Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus?

On J-Day our profession will have a lot to answer for! We might at least have withheld our hands instead of making them work against God.

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

But to be honest, I didn't share these ethical concerns.

among the Arabs a gifted poet was like a multitude of men, for his verses were repeated from mouth to mouth. If good, he was a power for good; if evil, a power for evil

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men

A unjust law, is no law at all.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

I would rather be ruled by a just Turk than by an unjust Christian.

In the third section, you proceed to turn us into modest and peace-loving Epicureans.

to live in good morals means calm and peace for the conscience, however much disquiet there may be in the flesh in public.

Each must watch over his own conscience, and therefore each must have the right to judge spirits and prophets; but no one has the right to take the sword for himself.

In lying fashion you ignore what even children know.

For I shall never advise a heathen or a Turk, let alone a Christian, to attack another or begin war.

It never does any good when one knave punishes another without first becoming good himself.

Where the happy medium cannot be attained, it is better and safer to fall short on this side than on that; that is, too much mercy is better than too much punishment. One can withdraw and reduce too much mercy; but punishment cannot be taken back, especially where it touches body, life, or limb.