Quotes About Ethics

Psychologisch beschouwd is het juister de verklaring voor het huidige profitariaat en individualisme te zoeken in een maatschappij die mensen opvoedt om steeds hun eigen voordeel na te streven, los van en desnoods ten koste van de ander. 'Je leeft maar één keer.

On the contrary, religion, ethics, and society are subservient to 'the market'. In that sense, neo-liberalism is no longer an economic theory, but a much broader ideology.

Het is dan ook geen toeval dat Aristoteles zijn visie op kennis uitwerkt in twee boeken die gewijd zijn aan ethiek, want kennis is daaraan ondergeschikt. Waardevrije kennis bestaat niet, evenmin als wetenschap zonder passie.

The road to hell is always paved with good intentions.

To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved very much since the days our forebears lived in caves and saught to prove their superiority by adorning themselves with teeth and claws

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

Politics is not about power.

Politics is not about money.

Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

These may be good people, but now I realize they work in a broken system

Well, truth is often hard to hear, but truth is freeing. And regarding cancer, the truth is this: money—rather than what's best for the patient—rules. And that's the truth.

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

Monsters don't just happen. We make them, day by day, choice by choice.

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

You can take a cub from the savannah as they have, and raise it like a pet if you like. In a cage, as some do, or running free like Paddy. You can feed it fresh meat so it never learns to hunt and brush its coat so it carries a human smell wherever it goes—but know that what you've done is twist something natural into something else. And you can never trust on unnatural thing. - Charles Clutterbuck

I had a harder time with this dishonesty, because it seemed to speak of something larger. The way he was always out for himself, whatever the cost.

Life is about juggling five balls in the air. They are health, family, friends, integrity and career/achievement.

Haain-a? No. Absolutely not. No. No scalping. He lifted her up and swung her up over the ledges of stone and then followed. He said, It is considered very impolite.

He must not be incapacitated. He must not be killed because he knew very well what they would do with the girl. Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.

must not be incapacitated, he must not be killed because he knew very well what they would do with the girl. Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.

I don't think much of oaths that bind good people to do things they know they shouldn't. If someone is committed to a cause, the only oath they need to swear is to do their duty.