Quotes About Ethics

Bob Neuwirth: In his depravity, Lou was dignified. Dignified depravity.

Isn't doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?

How do men convince themselves that others must die so they might live?

Every part of him wants to scream: is this not wrong? But here it is right.

It was not,' said Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, 'very easy to be good then.

There are many people in this world," Himerius says, "who do not care to what purposes their engines are put. So long as they are paid.

Seymour has locked: he can no longer see the planet as anything but dying, and everyone around him complicit in the killing. The people in the Eden's Gate houses fill their trash cans and pilot SUVs between their two homes and play music on Bluetooth speakers in their backyards and tell themselves they're good people, conducting honorable, decent lives, living the so-called dream—as though America

How do you ever know that you are doing the right thing?

Especially during wartime, such things remain important. They are what separate the civilized man from the barbarian.

Disgrace is not to fall but to lie.

Is it right," Jutta says, "to do something only because everyone else is doing it?

I don't want to make trouble, Madame." "Isn't doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?" "Doing nothing is doing nothing." "Doing nothing is as good as collaborating." The

These numbers, they're more than numbers. Do you understand?" "But we are the good guys. Aren't we, Uncle?" "I hope so. I hope we are.

It was not," says Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, "very easy to be good then.

Werner is succeeding. He is being loyal. He is being what everybody agrees is good. And yet every time he wakes and buttons his tunic, he feels he is betraying something.

How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?

Is it right," Jutta says, "to do something only because everyone else is doing it?

Critical design can never be truly popular, and that is the fundamental problem. Objects that are critical of industry's agenda are unlikely to be funded by industry.

Virtue humanizes and spiritualizes what is part animal in us. Vice brutalizes what is human and spiritual in us.

To put the matter bluntly, no sense at all can be made of the virtue of purity if sodomy is countenanced or even celebrated. That is because the virtue is founded in reality, and the vice depends upon denying the reality.

Virtue liberates; vice enslaves. A passion for genuine beauty liberates;

Justice is only what a "culture," meaning a shifting majority of people, say it is, with a dollop of respect for "human rights" spread on top, without intellectual foundation, and without any connection with virtue and duty.

The early Christians saw the connections quite clearly, which is why they set themselves apart from the licentiousness. They did not frequent houses of prostitution, they did not divorce, they did not kill their babies, and they did not engage in sexual perversion.

We see then that the principle of sexual autonomy is fundamentally antisocial. It not only retreats from social responsibility; it breeds social irresponsibility.