Quotes About Ethics

What does it mean to be human, to be good, to be moral, to be all three at once? It means that flawed beings often must choose between two flawed options.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The teacher who does not respect the student's curiosity in its diverse aesthetic, linguistic, and syntactical expressions; who uses irony to put down legitimate questioning (recognizing of course that freedom is not absolute, that it requires of its nature certain limits); who is not respectfully present in the educational experience of the student, transgresses fundamental ethical principles of the human condition.

I must intervene in teaching the peasants that their hunger is socially constructed and work with them to help identify those responsible for this social construction, which is, in my view, a crime against humanity. Therefore, we need to intervene not only pedagogically but also ethically.

The great challenge for the democratic-minded educator is how to transmit a sense of limit that can be ethically integrated by freedom itself. The more consciously freedom assumes its necessary limits, the more authority it has, ethically speaking, to continue to struggle in its own name.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen's rights and inadequate stress put upon his duties and responsibilities.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

In his pioneering research on moral development in children, Lawrence Kohlberg argued that teaching students to obey rules in order to avoid punishment was far less effective than helping students to develop the ability to make reasoned ethical judgments about their behavior. Rather than punishing students by sending them home for fighting, educators should teach students how to resolve conflicts peacefully; discipline should always teach a moral lesson.

That I dream, and that my wishes Are to do what's right, since we Even in dreams should do what's fitting.

When unjust laws are duly weighed, The king, too, may be disobeyed. They owed their true prince everything.

How can it be justified And how can it be right For God to give freedom - Sweet And Beautiful Freedom - To give it to a stream, a fish, A brute and a bird And deny it to a human being!

I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal.

Act like a criminal and that's how you'll be treated.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money

Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.