Quotes About Ethics

He didn't care; it was not his skin he wanted to save, but the man of honour and integrity. These things are not open to compromise or negotiation.

just programmed into the bomb's guidance system. "Hey!" the copilot told the Delta operator. "We don't

And I thought, That pretty much sums it up. Meatballs, man. Like what's the karma in a meatball? Only humans make balls out of other animals. Like when you're in kindergarten and you're coloring in your coloring book: What does the doggy say? "Bowwow!" What does the kitty say? "Meeoww!" What does the moocow say? "AARRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!

Life offers more than one option for doing the right thing.

Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.

We have elected to order manufacture upon inhuman lines; why should we ask for humanity in the product?

The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's, Is — not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be — but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair & the word fair can be taken in both senses — it means both beautiful and just.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

It has been often said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts.

though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious.

Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.

they are not tempted to use the slime of frustrated souls as mortar in the building of a new world.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Non a McMerde.

The sort of reasoning that would try a woman for murder if she sought an abortion could well lead to renewed witch-hunts.

Mme Therbouche: Ah oui, qu'avez-vous fait jusqu'à présent pour la morale ? Diderot: (sans vergogne). Mais... j'ai offert mon exemple.

Le mal, c'est la promesse qu'on ne tient pas...

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Ecco. Bisogna distinguere due pene, Oscar, la sofferenza fisica e la sofferenza morale. La sofferenza fisica la si subisce. La sofferenza morale la si sceglie.» «Non capisco.» «Se ti piantano dei chiodi nei polsi o nei piedi, non puoi far altro che avere male. Subisci. Invece, all'idea di morire, non sei obbligato ad avere male. Non sai che cos'è. Dipende dunque da te.»

Freedom does not mean license.

The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or what is bad for people, whether they are good or bad for society in a period of evolution. May be a voice crying in the wilderness, but only if that voice remains lively and uncompromising, it is possible to transform the desert into fertile land.

Ethical principles stand above the existence of the nation and that by adhering to these principles an individual belongs to the community of all those who share, who have shared, and who will share this belief.

We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.

La peggiore di tutte le passioni umane, l'impulso a servirsi di un proprio simile per fini egoistici, in nome della propria superiorità, ben poco si differenzia da una forma raffinata di cannibalismo.