Quotes About Ethics

La vida es justamente eso, un camino azaroso entre tentaciones; y la probidad no depende únicamente de la virtud de cada cual, sino también, y en cierta medida, de la suerte. De cómo, cuándo y dónde te han tentado.

Man's inhumanity to man, unleashed, was an obscenity, and that obscenity was each person's own private responsibility.

How could such a picture be in a national newspaper The model had ridiculous breasts the size of pumpkins and lips fat and wet and all that she was wearing was a spangled G-string.

Armin feel very ashamed. Ashamed of the banking system. Ashamed of Switzerland. These are terrible, unpatriotic things to feel. And I wonder if it isn't this shame which has allowed his illness in.

Social reform held a sacred quality for the women involved; it equaled practical Christianity, the living out of the ethics of Jesus. Most reformers saw Christianity as the foundation of, not an impediment to, their work. Some also felt led to critique the church so that its message and its practice would be brought more closely together.

Making friends with the impersonal necessity of death is an ethical way of installing oneself in life as a transient, slightly wounded visitor.

recent issue of the weekly magazine The Economist (2 June 2012) on 'Morals and the machine' raises some pertinent issues about the degree of autonomy reached by robots and calls for society to develop new rules to manage them.

I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. I'm still going through the motions.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

La sociedad pervierte al ser humano.

In addition to all that, a man may have any opinions he likes without that being any of the sovereign's business. Having no standing in the other world, the sovereign has no concern with what may lie in wait for its subjects in the life to come, provided they are good citizens in this life.

No me gusta llenar de plomo a nadie, pero es mi trabajo

Truthfulness, uprightness, and honesty are in this connection creative forces, while mendacity, deceitfulness, and dishonesty are destructive forces.

you will not be good teachers if you focus only upon what you do and not upon what you are.

A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18

It is not a good fancy,' said the llama. 'What profit to kill men?' Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way.

Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.

You may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and you can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and SEVEN TIMES NEVER KILL MAN.

Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, no matter how trifling the cost. For the end of that game is oppression and shame and the nation that plays it is lost!

I follow the Law—the Most Excellent Law.

The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow.

The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him. They