Quotes About Ethics

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks.

If human beings want to possess human rights, they have to give animals animal rights. But how do I justify the fact that yesterday I ate meat? I lack the courage to think this thought through to the end.

Deizm, Allah'a imans?zl?k de?il, yozla?t?r?lm?? dinsel ya?ant?dan uzak kalmakt?r. Allah'a iman? tehlikeye at?p ateist olmaktansa, ibadetleri terk edip Allah'a iman? korumak yani deist olmak elbette ye?dir.

Deizmin kutsal? ak?l, bilim ve ahlakt?r.

Deizm, laikli?in bir tür felsefesidir.

I don't let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that's offering the patient comfort. I never want to take away something when I don't have anything better to offer him in a way.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

Le bonheur n'est pas la récompense de la vertu. Il est la vertu elle-même. 

A man who cheats, cheats only himself.

Tous les Hommes sont sales d'une manière ou d'une autre. Seulement, il y a ceux qu'un simple verre d'eau suffit à laver, et ceux que tous les océans de la terre ne sauraient purifier.

il ne s'agit pas de laver son corps, mais son âme, jeunes gens. si vous êtes pourris de l'intérieur, ni les fleuves ni les océans ne sauraient vous désinfecter.

And remember this: There's nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

All men are dirty in one way or another. Only there are those who can be washed by a simple glass of water, and those who could not be purified by all the oceans of the earth.

If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt.

The person who works for recognition devalues the work he does, that awards are first and foremost political instruments, that altruism's true name is always Anonymous.

What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they were no playthings. Biology was serious business, not for amateurs and foolish gods.

The enemy takes what isn't his. Jesus gives from what is His. Which are you more like?

It has come to pass', she wrote, in lines that reverberate still, 'that the working class is used, so to speak, as the unit of the moral investigation, until we well nigh believe that this class is the chief repository of the vices and virtues of the nation'.

The law locks up the man or woman/ Who steals the goose from off the common/ But leaves the greater villain loose/ who steals the common from the goose'.