Quotes About Ethics

A virtuous society, by contrast, is one that shares belief in objective moral goods and the practices necessary for human beings to embody those goods in community. To

In our time, secular social justice has been shorn of its Christian dimension. Because they defend a particular code of sexual morality and gender categories, Christians are seen by progressives as the enemies of social justice.

Elites and elite institutions are abandoning old-fashioned liberalism, based in defending the rights of the individual, and replacing it with a progressive creed that regards justice in terms of groups. It encourages people to identify with groups—ethnic, sexual, and otherwise—and to think of Good and Evil as

Faithful Christians who foresaw a professional career for themselves or their children will need to give the trades a second look. Better to be a plumber with a clean conscience than a corporate lawyer with a compromised one.

Arendt said of some writers who glorified the will to power,

You cannot be both good and neutral, because to refuse desire is to refuse life. The goal is not to remove desire but to purify it.

I am responsible for myself. Every time I do the things I shouldn't do or fail to do the things I should do, I sin. The weight of our sins can seem overwhelming, so much so that we feel trapped by them in a dark wood of our own making. What makes it worse is the sense in contemporary culture that sin is either not real or no big deal.

he's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you do, you'll rot in hell.

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

For Socrates, the goal of all human beings was arete.

Usually translated as 'goodness' or 'virtue'

escuadrones de la muerte evangélicos» integrados por agentes de la Policía Nacional Civil que pertenecen a distintas sectas religiosas. «Estamos librando —dice— una lucha contra el Mal. Así se justifican los asesinatos extrajudiciales».

Es la cultura responsable de la violencia y la corrupción que dominan a los hombres? ¿O hay un mal congénito impreso en la naturaleza misma del hombre?

no theology is worth believing that cannot be preached standing in front of the gates of Auschwitz.

Reason and be open to reason; yield to principle, not pressure.

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

The doctrine of Original sin, which is contained in the story of Genesis – one of the most beautiful concentrated metaphors in existence – is about the way we human beings fall from treating each other as subjects to treating each other as objects. Love, respect and forgiveness come from that. When we treat each other as objects, then we get the concentration camps.

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage ' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice ' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.

Liberty is maintained by responsible freedom.

Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.

Seiner Funktion nach darf der Abgeordnete kein Zyniker sein, schließt doch Zynismus die Zustimmung zur Zerstörung ein und enthält so eine Absage an den Humanismus, dem sich das Parlament verdankt und den es immer wieder auf den neuesten Stand bringen sollte.