Quotes About Ethics

To kill one individual, that is, to subtract fifty years to the total sum of human lives, was criminal. But to subtract fifty million years was not considered criminal. Really, isn't that absurd?

Hükümet (veya insanl?k) idam cezas?na izin vermiyor ama milyonlarca kiÅŸinin her gün yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ öldürülmesine göz yumuyor. Bir insan? öldürmek -yani yaÅŸam?ndan 50 y?l almak- suç ama tüm insanlar?n yaÅŸamlar?ndan 50.000.000 y?l? çekip almak suç deÄŸil!

A snake deserves no pity.

I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.

Proverbs is in many respects a work on ethics, presenting arguments concerning the manner in which moral precepts relate to life and the good; Job investigates the reasons good individuals (and, by implication, good nations) should suffer catastrophe; Esther seeks an account of how God's will works in political circumstances in which one sees nothing but the decisions and deeds of human actors; and so forth.

When you do what you know is right,' Father explained, 'you find a dignity in yourself that makes you a happy person.

Do que adianta a ciência... se nem uma vida pode salvar...?

Justice, justice, shall you pursue," commands the Torah. The rabbis ask: Why the repetition of the word "justice"? My answer has been shaped by our conflict: Sometimes, the pursuit of justice means fulfilling two claims to justice, even when they clash.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of sense and human reason. If it is to be measured by a strict standard of holiness, by religious normativity alone, then there can never be a moral capitalism.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

We're not born creative or destructive. Each one of us has the ability to create or destroy, to leave the world better than we found it, or worse.

Benim endi?em ?u ki, kand?rmak aleni bir ?ekilde insanlar?n ya?am ?ekli haline geldi?inde, bu ister bir ki?i olsun, ister bir ülke, herkes aldatman?n kurban? haline gelir.

Çünkü bu dünyadaki bütün düÅŸüÅŸler, alçal??lar aras?nda en tiksindirici olan safl???n düÅŸüÅŸü, alçal???d?r.