Quotes About Ethics

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

some preached asceticism, others licentiousness. All preached confusion.

Chess is one of the means we have to save culture, such as Latin, the study of the humanities, the reading of classics, the laws of versification and ethics. Chess is now replaced by football, boxing or tennis, which are games of fools, not of intellectuals.

Pensó que la felicidad, como el bien, es un atributo divino y que no deben usurparlo los hombres.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.

El ajedrez es uno de los medios que tenemos para salvar la cultura, como el latín, el estudio de las humanidades, la lectura de los clásicos, las leyes de la versificación, la ética. El ajedrez es hoy reemplazado por el fútbol, el boxeo o el tenis, que son juegos de insensatos, no de intelectuales.

Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.

Si Dios no existe, todo es lícito. Si todo es lícito, sólo admitiré como norma para mí mis criterios de conveniencia. Si todo es lícito, nada es malo. Y si algo es malo, te fastidias.

El pecado, como la virtud, no depende de la naturaleza, sino, esencialmente, de la voluntad.

Scruples were for imbeciles. His clear duty was to make himself happy.

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.

the intemperately wrathful man is less obnoxious than the intemperately lustful one, while the immoderate pleasure-seeker, intent on dissimulation and camouflage, is unable to give or take a straight look in the eye.

Properly speaking, the liberal arts receive an honorarium, while servile work receives a wage.

Can a lie be taken as communication? I tend to deny it. A lie is the opposite of communication. It means specifically to withhold the other's share and portion of reality, to prevent his participation in reality.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise.

They laugh at this, the idea that one might keep herds of friendly deer or elk that walk happily to their slaughter whenever it's time for the human to eat meat. Some ask openly if there aren't consequences of a life so easy to live.

Nature's full of things that aren't good or bad. They just are. Storms, sun, lightning, animals. There are a lot of forces that are neutral, but when they fall into certain hands they can become good or bad. It depends on how the user wants to use them. You can train a dog to be friendly or mean.

In an anthropological respect, let me reiterate, a human being is an aesthetic creature before he is an ethical one. Therefore, it is not that art, particularly literature, is a by-product of our species' development, but just the reverse. If what distinguishes us from other members of the animal kingdom is speech, then literature – and poetry in particular, being the highest form of locution – is, to put it bluntly, the goal of our species.

Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.

A bird may twitter a better song. But should you consider abortion wrong or that the quacks ask too high a fee, come to this wall, and see.