Quotes About Ethics

19You shall not judge unfairly: you shall show no partiality; you shall not take bribes, for bribes blind the eyes of the discerning and upset the plea of the just.

35If your kinsman, being in straits, comes under your authority, and you hold him as though a resident alien, let him live by your side: 36do not exact from him advance or accrued interest,* but fear your God. Let him live by your side as your kinsman. 37Do not lend him your money at advance interest, or give him your food at accrued interest.

there is not one good man on earth who does what is best* and doesn't err.

We should judge one another. It stops us becoming animals. The pressure of failing in the eyes of society passes for some sort of morality.

Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.

Jika masyarakat sudah dibuat tidak meyakini kebenaran ajaran agama, maka yang akan dijadikan pegangan adalah akal manusia semata atau hawa nafsu mereka. Tidak ada standar kebenaran. Pada ketika itulah masyarakat akan terseret ke dalam arus nilai yang serba relatif dan temporal. Kebenaran tergantung pada kesepakatan. Agama tidak diberi hak untuk campur tangan untuk menentukan baik dan buruk di tengah masyarakat. (Hal.17)

Dengan segala kehebatannya dalam dunia keilmuan, tengoklah bagaimana sikap 'tahu diri' seorang al-Ghazali. Beliau tetap menempatkan dirinya di bawah mazhab Shafii dalam soal metodologi ushul fiqh. Beliau tidak merasa lebih hebat dari Shafii. Banyak ilmuan besar Islam tetap memelihara sikap adil dan beradab dalam mengkaji dan menyebarkan ilmu kepada masyarakat.

Logika kebebasan individu--asal tidak merugikan orang lain ini telah menjebak Barat dan masyarakat sekular lainnya untuk menerapkan hukum yang berdasarkan pada 'hak individu', seperti dalam kasus hukum zina. Jika zina dihalalkan oleh masyarakat dan negara, lalu apa logikanya negara mau mengharamkan homoseksual? (Hal.11)

How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?

Righteousness and evil are not character traits determined in advance or by heredity, but lie rather in the hand of each one of us.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.

Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.

I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

You can fight only for something you love. You can love only what you respect. You can respect only what you know.

No es cierto que la idea de responsabilidad presupone la idea de la personalidad?