Quotes About Ethics

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

Ako dobra nema u ljudima, ne može ga biti ni u društvu.

Boriti se može protiv careva, tirana, papa, lopova i medveda, pitona i krokodila. Si?ušnu vašku zaludno je ubijati. I smešno je i bezumno ubijati vaši.

Ni?emu život ne sme da bude cena. Apsolutno ni?emu.

Za ubijanje moraju se imati neke ideje. Te krupne, banalne, svim ljudima iste re?i. Bez takvih izgovora mi smo i sebi samo obi?ne ubice. Mora se imati ratni cilj, mora se pristati na ratnu obmanu.

What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.

You don't even have to believe in anything to be good to people. You should just know you should be a good human being.

La destrucción voluntaria de una jirafa africana o de un kagú de Nueva Caledonia, en la medida en que compromete la supervivencia misma de tales especies, es el plano filosófico y científico, quizás tan grave como el asesinato de un hombre y tan irreparabale como la laceración de un cuadro de Rafael. Acaba para siempre con un fragmento del pasado. Roger Hein.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

We must choose this, if we have the debt to pay. Murder in one life, and be murdered in the next. Rape in one, be raped in another. We decide if we pay now or later; balancing all that is in the great wheel of life.

Nothing out there tells us how we must live: we and we alone can now with confidence knowingly trust our own hearts, and admit that we do and must invent our own ethics.

At such times as that, when the TV cameras begin creeping up on a mother weeping at her son's coffin, journalists should wonder where the profession is heading.

10 Quien es fiel en lo poco, también lo es en lo mucho; y quien es injusto en lo poco, también lo es en lo mucho. 11 Si en las falsas riquezas no han sido fieles: ¿Quién les fiará las verdaderas? 12 Y si en lo ajeno no fueron fieles: ¿quién pondrá en sus manos lo suyo propio?

33 El pobre es honrado por sus buenas costumbres y santo temor de Dios; y el rico es respetado por las riquezas que tiene. 34 Mas aquel que en medio de la pobreza es honrado, ¿cuánto más lo sería si llegase a ser rico? Pero el que funda su honor en sus riquezas, tiene que temer mucho la pobreza. 11

Sometimes the distinction between theft and homage is murky.

Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.

understood that when treachery is philosophically justified, true peace is impossible.

Why do Uber drivers get rated on customer satisfaction but corporate executives get a pass?

I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.