Quotes About Ethics

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

One is punished most for one's virtues.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

the lie is a condition of life.

I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves when I deal with them...

inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.

The worst mutilation of man that can be imagined presented as the good man.

Life has not been devised by morality: it wants deception, it lives on deception.

For man to be redeemed from revenge, that is for me the bridge to the highest hope, and a rainbow after long storms. Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

The bite of conscience is indecent.

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

A virtue must be our invention; it must spring out of our personal need and defence.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.

Morality negates life.

The great epochs of life come when we gain the courage to re-christen our evil as what is best in us

The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue. The good want the old, and that old should be preserved.

good men never tell the truth. The good taught you false shores and false securities: you were born and kept in the lies of the good. Everything has been distorted and twisted down to its very bottom through the good

This is the antinomy: insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.

All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.