Quotes About Ethics

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.

We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

TAKING THE FIRST FOOTSTEP with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise.

This was replaced by a widespread and aggressive individualism whereby everyone looks out for himself, at the expense of others and without worrying about the good of society.

Quien busque la supervivencia asesinando la humanidad de otro ser humano sólo consigue sobrevivir a la muerte de su propia humanidad.

t was not illiterate savages, but graduates of the finest educational systems of the West who designed the gas chambers used to burn millions of innocent men, women and children in Germany.

Desconocemos las consecuencias de nuestros actos y de nuestras omisiones, pero somos responsables de ellas.

En otras palabras, la consiste en transformar la humana de algo en una , y en hacer responsables a los actores de la realización de esta tarea y de las consecuencias (así como los efectos colaterales) de su desempeño.

El precepto de amar al prójimo desafía a los instintos determinados por la naturaleza; pero también desafía el sentido de la supervivencia establecido por la naturaleza, y el del amor a uno mismo, que lo resguarda.

It is because the moral economy has little need of the market that market forces are up in arms against it.

La victimización rara vez humaniza a sus víctimas. Ser una víctima no garantiza autoridad moral.

Invertir sentimientos profundos en la relación y jurar fidelidad implica correr un enorme riesgo: eso lo convierte a usted en alguien dependiente de su pareja (aunque señalemos que la dependencia —que rápidamente ha cobrado un matiz peyorativo— es la base de la responsabilidad moral hacia el Otro, tanto para Lögstrup como para Levinas).

Cuanto mejor protegidos de la contaminación están los valores preservados en el pensamiento, menos relevancia tienen para la vida de aquellos a quienes deberían ser de utilizada.

Moderne folkemord, liksom moderne kultur generelt, er gartnerarbeid.

A consumerist attitude may lubricate the wheels of the economy; it sprinkles sand into the bearings of morality.

Progress is a law—and theft too has its creation.

Being a good person is more than just not being a bad person.

I lied, therefore I thought.

See, when something's the right thing to do, you don't do it for a reward.

You can't reduce sapient lives to numbers and exchange them like credits.

There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil.

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.