Quotes About Ethics

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Lazareff believed that "a journalists first duty is to be read," but Camus felt it was to tell the truth as much as possible, with as much style as possible. Camus saw "Lazareffism" as unacceptable journalism, a mixture of political submissiveness, raw crime, and nonsense. Pia and Camus hated the spineless large-circulation press, which followed orders and catered to its readers' lower instincts.

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.

Ashikaga Takauji41 had an evil reputation as a traitor, but it is said that he sat zazen for some time every night and never failed to engage in this daily practice even when he became intoxicated. I think this should be a lesson to students of Zen.

When we refer to the classic text Zazen-gi regarding the method of sitting, we find the following written about the essential technique of zazen, "Once the posture has been stabilized and the breath regulated, push forth the lower abdomen; one thinks not of good or evil.

The striking silence about duties in many contemporary discussions of rights no doubt reflects immense cultural shifts from a world centred on social and ethical duties, to one in which legal requirements and their enforcement by states are seen as fundamental, and in which individuals are commonly seen as having rights – but little is said about their duties.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

If you do not have a moral question in your governing process, then you do not have a process that is going to survive.

His life was a hymn in praise of honor, uprightness, and patriotism.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilisation is dead. Period.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

In Italia si parla sempre di Diritti e mai di Doveri. In Italia si finge di ignorare o si ignora che ogni Diritto comporta un Dovere, che chi non compie il proprio dovere non merita alcun diritto».

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

Prawo niesie ze sobÄ… obowiÄ…zek, a ci którzy nie wypeÅ'niajÄ… swoich obowiÄ…zków, nie zasÅ'ugujÄ… na ?adne prawa

Basta volere un figlio per costringerlo alla vita? Ed è giusto sacrificare una vita già fatta a una vita che ancora non è?

Vedi, nemmeno a contatto con l'infinito un uomo diventa grande se in lui non v'è grandezza. Andar sulla Luna non ci rende certo migliori.

To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.