Quotes About Ethics

Just as there are those who believe we should change morality to suit our amorality, so there are those who believe we should change God to suit our godlessness.

Perhaps the solicitation to pamper the way men live is too strong for them, for much of the business of philosophy at the present time seems to be to give high-sounding names to cover the sins of men. The clay is now molding the potter and the marble carving out the sculptor.

The greatest inhumanity that can be ascribed to men is having an opportunity for doing good to others and doing nothing. The serious sin is not always one of commission, but omission.

Communism is strong only when it borrows some of the moral indignation that has been inherited from the Hebraic-Christian traditions;

A character is made by the kind of thoughts a man thinks when alone, and a civilization is made by the kind of thoughts a man speaks to his neighbor.

responsibilities but to securing the

There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys.

toi, tu crois que c'est les soldats qui changent le monde, qui mènent le monde; et moi, bien moi, je crois que c'est les gars qui restent en arrière et qui font de l'argent avec la guerre.

Non possiamo essere imparziali. Possiamo essere soltanto intellettualmente onesti.

Who judges the judge who judges wrong? The sentence too weak, The sentence too strong. The penance too quick, The penance too long. Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

Faced with defeat, they judged their actions against their consciences and ruled themselves righteous.

In that case there will be no danger of his performing any evil action, since he practises temperance and despises money: all evil actions that men undertake are done either at the prompting of greed or under the spell of pleasure

By the end of 1939, 40,000 Americans had undergone involuntary, unconsented sterilisation. But at least nobody had been killed.

the morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed

But we can never do nothing. That which we have done for thousands of years is also action

The mathematics of biological reproduction is logically identical with the mathematics of usury. Money earns interest, animals have babies. In

Individualism is cherished because it produces freedom, but the gift is conditional.

No one wins in the industrial food system.

In the NBA, it's wins and losses. You don't have to deal with some of the hypocrisy of college athletics.

I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

I think about what's going down my sink. So I won't pour oil down my sink. I won't - if I'm cleaning a pan, I'll wipe it and bin because I've seen - I've been down sewers.

What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.