Quotes About Ethics

Lesser of two evils.

In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power.

We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness.

so slow is moral progress. True, we have the bicycle, the motor-car, the dirigible airship and other marvellous means of breaking our bones; but our morality is not one rung the higher for it all. One would even say that, the farther we proceed in our conquest of matter, the more our morality recedes. The most advanced of our inventions consists in bringing men down with grapeshot and explosives with the swiftness of the reaper mowing the corn.

It's unsettling to see, emboldened by the veracity of black and white, the most deeply suppressed grapplings of your own smothered conscience, printed right there in the newspaper for all the world to read.

Despite everything he's been through, or maybe also because of it, her boy has weighed the call of his conscience above the call of his own salvation.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Self-love makes more libertines than love.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

trop fameux Gott mit uns, aujourd'hui repris par George Bush dans le cadre de sa lutte contre l'« axe du Mal », l'homme justifie ses intentions belliqueuses en utilisant la religion à ses propres fins, et n'hésite pas à déclarer la guerre en son nom. Une pratique mal décelée dans le bouddhisme, encore que ce soit en terre bouddhique que se sera perpétrée, on l'a dit, la folle aventure génocidaire de Pol Pot. Une

chapitre xvii Que disent les philosophes Dans toutes les civilisations, philosophes et penseurs se sont donné pour objectif de reléguer ou de contenir l'agressivité et d'en prémunir autant que possible les sociétés humaines. Tout au moins jusqu'à l'époque contemporaine.

even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick

What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.

Extreme corruption steals our dignity from us as human beings and degrades us to the level of animals,

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

It was a genuine revelation, you see," said Aimée to the baron. "They can be killed. The real assholes can be killed.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

I don't need God in order to love my neighbor.

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is the fact.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.