Quotes About Ethics

He suggests that contraceptive substances be added to basic foods.... Should a couple wish to have a child, they'd go to special stores to procure their food. Every child a wanted child.

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

Undoubtedly the dress of a virtuous and godly woman must differ from that of a strumpet.

God does not avenge certain crimes in this world, but postpones punishment to the next, to deal with them all the more severely; conversely

All who have not been influenced by the principle of self-denial, have followed virtue merely from the love of praise.

Shall we, indeed, distinguish between right and wrong by that judgment which has been imparted to us, yet will there be no judge in heaven?

For nothing is more dangerous than to live   where the public license of crime prevails; yea, there is no pestilence   so destructive, as that corruption of morals, which is opposed neither   by laws nor judgments, nor any other remedies.

For it is a   moroseness too imperious, to wish that what we ourselves follow as   right, and consonant with our duty, should be prescribed as a law to   others.         

If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

The two Old Men move beyond a rigid code of ethical prescriptions, with their almost inhumane consequences, into a more compassionate situational or occasional ethics, where there are no established formulas and fewer binding directives, where the individual always assumes responsibility for his or her actions.

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

Grumbach adds, "John Money is a major figure, and what he says gets handed down and accepted as gospel by some

Patriots built Auschwitz. You start believing that "my country wrong or right" shit, and it always ends up at the same place: a pit filled with bones.

Frank tried to look like he was wrestling with his conscience, although he couldn't have found his conscience without a shovel and an exhumation order.

But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere." "'They?' Who are 'they?'" "I don't know. Just people." "That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe?