Quotes About Ethics

Dac? senzualul nu ar fi educat ?i dirijat de spiritual, s-ar reduce invariabil la fizic, ?i nimic mai mult.

Pure morality points you to the purest One of all; and the purer your habits, the closer to God you will come.

What holds the laws of a nation? It is the moral soil that must hold the roots.

Psychiatry, in fact, is wrestling with the ramifications of a drug that removes guilt and remorse. What kind of a world will we have when a rapist can take a morning-after pill?

The moral law will always stand over and above and against a heart that seeks to be its own guide. One

Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?

Good to evil seems evil.

For being good is a fearful occupation; men strain at it & sometimes break in two. I've known a few. You work twice as hard to be a farmer as to be his hog.

We can't be good unless we know what bad is, and it's a shame we're working against time.

Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think.' 'That's sad,' said Montag, quietly, 'because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know.

My uncle says his grandfather remembered when children didn't kill each other. But that was a long time ago when they had things different. They believed in responsibility, my uncle says.

So it must seem. Good to evil seems evil.

Possibile che tu non sappia riconoscere l'umano nel disumano?» «Preferirei saper riconoscere il disumano nell'umano.»

Now, look, since when did you think being good meant being happy?" "Since always." "Since now learn otherwise.

You weren't hurting anyone, you were hurting only things! And since things couldn't really be hurt, since things felt nothing, and things don't scream or whimper, as this woman might begin to scream and cry out, there was nothing to tease your conscience later. You were simply cleaning up. Janitorial work, essentially. Everything to its proper place. Quick with the kerosene! Who's got a match!

So, for thousands of years, you humans have needed kings, priests, philosophers, fine examples to look up to and say, 'They are good, I wish I could be like them.

Let us go into her room and strangle her," said one of the men. "No, that would not be right," said a woman. "Let us throw her from the window." Everyone laughed tiredly.

Is the programming on such an ear-button receiver of a caliber to enable a man to be a gyroscope, both taking from and giving to society, beautifully balanced?

The god you worship is the god you deserve.

there is everywhere in the civilized world a rapidly rising incidence of vice and crime

Men act badly sometimes without being much worse than others

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.