Quotes About Ethics

Siguiendo las premisas de la ética de la consideración,38 la asertividad bien entendida trata de equilibrar el yo autónomo (independiente) con el yo considerado (interpersonal). La combinación de ambos me permite estar comprometido con la red social/afectiva a la cual pertenezco y sostener al mismo tiempo un territorio de reserva personal. Pedro

La función del hombre sabio consiste, sobre todo, en deliberar rectamente… Y delibera rectamente, en el sentido más estricto de la palabra, quien apunta en sus cálculos hacia las más altas actividades abiertas del hombre. ARISTÓTELES, Ética de Nicómaco, VI

aplica las siguientes dos máximas y adhiérete a los límites que marcan, por si la culpa y la preocupación no te dejan "descontrolarte" (en el buen sentido). Ponlas en un lugar visible y échale un vistazo de tanto en tanto:   1. Puedes hacer lo que quieras, si no es dañino para ti ni para nadie. 2. Haz lo que quieras, si no violas la Carta Universal de los Derechos Humanos.   Que

Todo placer es una cosa buena, mas no todo placer debe ser perseguido; y, paralelamente, todo dolor es un mal, pero no todo dolor debe ser evitado a cualquier precio. En todo caso, es conveniente decidir sobre estas cuestiones comparando y examinando atentamente lo que es útil y lo que no lo es, porque a veces usamos un bien como si fuera un mal, y un mal como si fuera un bien.41

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Consult duty not events.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?

Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law.

Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down.

Jesus abhors both passivity and violence as responses to evil.

No war today could be called just, given the inevitable level of casualties and atrocities.

Swer guotes wibes liebe hat Der schamt sich ieder missetat.

seeing how small our affairs look in the larger scheme of things, the Stoic means to induce a felt sense of humility and attraction to virtue. The method can be called intuitive because it isn't a matter of argument. It's more a question of showing and pointing, and expecting perceptions and adjustments to follow directly from a new point of view.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you will do things differently.

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.