Quotes About Ethics

Thou shalt do no murder," and the distinction between murder and killing is not a small one. Murder, in the Hebrew language and culture, refers to the premeditated taking of a life outside the womb; killing had to do with the ritual

Batman: You can't build a better world by killing criminals--it bankrupts your soul and society's by reinforcing the same cycle of violence.

Er war ein kluger Kopf, mit einem astronomisch hohen IQ. Aber ein hoher IQ macht einen nicht automatisch zu einem tollen Menschen, nicht einmal zu einem guten. Es bedeutet lediglich, dass man sich allen möglichen Scheiß ausdenken kann, zu dem andere nicht fähig sind.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits

tolerancia fomenta la ética individual, y no confía en el compromiso. No es casualidad que el Nuevo Testamento piense que la relación entre Cristo y la iglesia es análoga a la que existe entre el marido y la mujer; o de que hoy día la gente se muestre reacia a entrar en el acto matrimonial.

America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.

The idea of good and evil has thus nothing to do with religion or a mystic conscience. It is a natural need of animal races. And when founders of religions, philosophers, and moralists tell us of divine or metaphysical entities, they are only recasting what each ant, each sparrow practices in its little society. Is this useful to society? Then it is good. Is this hurtful? Then it is bad.

But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

You shall not murder.

You shall not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.

Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.

But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—

If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.

If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and allows them to stray so that they graze in someone elseís field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field or vineyard.

If the owner was present, no restitution is required. If the animal was rented, the fee covers the loss.

Whoever lies with an animal must surely be put to death.

“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.