Quotes About Ethics

If I was to live, if others were to live, he must live. I didn't dare test the paradox.

I wonder what a badge is, other than a license to steal. What did it used to be to make people Bankole's age want to trust it. I know what the old books say, but still, I wonder.

are, too, don't forget. People who poison each other, then disclaim all responsibility.

Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have any business doing what you're doing.

God isn't good or evil, doesn't favor you or hate you, and yet God is better partnered than fought." "Your God doesn't care about you at all," Travis said. "All the more reason to care about myself and others. All the more reason to create Earthseed communities and shape God together. 'God is Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay.' We decide which aspect we embrace—and how to deal with the others.

Her main thoughts were still of the loathsome thing she had been tricked into doing—the consumption of animal milk.

He said politicians turned his stomach.

If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power.

If everyone could feel everyone else's pain, who would torture? Who would cause anyone unnecessary pain?

A biological conscience is better than no conscience at all.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples.

I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seagulls I leave no tern unstoned.

Compassion itself is noble.

It would be better even that a great people should be destroyed than that the whole race should be thrown into turmoil.

Socrates woke to the ideal of dispassionate intelligence, Jesus to the ideal of passionate yet self-oblivious worship. Socrates urged intellectual integrity, Jesus integrity of will. Each, of course, though starting with a different emphasis, involved the other.

Thus, though there is normally no such thing as sin among the stars, no deliberate choice of the course known to be wrong for the sake of some end known to be irrelevant, there is ignorance, and consequent aberration from the pattern of the ideal as revealed to stars of somewhat maturer mentality.

Self-discipline implies some unpleasant things to me, including staying away from chocolate and keeping my hands out of women's pants.

Things happen. The only thing that matters is how we deal with the now. Either we face the difficult moral decisions with ever-stronger responses, or we do not. This is what separates the mensch from the asshole. Full stop.

O kraju ?wiadcz? jego Zwierz?ta. Stosunek do Zwierz?t. Je?eli ludzie zachowuj? si? bestialsko wobec Zwierz?t, nie pomo?e im ?adna demokracja ani w ogóle nic.

Its Animals show the truth about a country," I said. "Its attitude toward Animals. If people behave brutally toward Animals, no form of democracy is ever going to help them, in fact nothing will at all.

What is the point of a law that applies only to some? The law should be observed for everyone without exception, wherever our ships and our money are able to take us.

In a pulpit Man places himself above other Creatures and grants himself the right to their life and death.

Ibland sätter man grimma på skönheten i det ondas intresse, då reduceras den till fägring för ögat, till båtnad för folket.