Quotes About Ethics

Das gute Beispiel ist nicht eine Möglichkeit, andere Menschen zu beeinflussen, es ist die Einzige.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests'.

Para que sea eficaz el comportamiento ético de los hombres debe basarse en la compasión, la educación y en motivos sociales: no necesita de ninguna base religiosa. Sería muy triste por parte de la humanidad si sólo se refrenara por miedo al castigo y por esperanza de un premio después de la muerte.

Creo que la sobrevalorización de lo intelectual en nuestra educación, dirigida hacia la eficiencia y la practicidad, ha perjudicado los valores éticos.

The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. ~Albert Einstein

Cei care au privilegiul de a ?ti, au datoria de a ac?iona

Vivisezione. Nessuno scopo è così alto da giustificare metodi così indegni.

in this materialistic age of ours the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people

Los sistemas autocráticos y opresivos degeneran muy pronto. Pues la violencia atrae a individuos de escasa moral y es ley de vida que a tiranos geniales sucedan verdaderos canallas.

the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

You are still a person who completed a perfect project, but never a good person for doing so." "How, then, do I become an incompetent or bad person?" "You don't! When you do incompetent or evil acts, you become a person who acted badly—never a bad person.

She must, above all things, be just, not truckling to the strong and warring on or plundering the weak; she must act on the square with all nations, and the feeblest tribes; always keeping her faith, honest in her legislation, upright in all her dealings. Whenever such a Republic exists, it will be immortal: for rashness, injustice, intemperance and luxury in prosperity, and despair and disorder in adversity, are the causes of the decay and dilapidation of nations.

to lend a book is an incitement to theft. A Reader on Reading p. 281

Já eu, raramente empresto um livro. Se quero que alguém leia um certo livro, compro um exemplar e ofereço-lho. Acredito que emprestar um livro é incitar ao furto.

It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

I don't want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.

But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.