Quotes About Ethical discernment

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.

19You shall not judge unfairly: you shall show no partiality; you shall not take bribes, for bribes blind the eyes of the discerning and upset the plea of the just.

Remember that we cannot judge the moral value of any action by how we feel. Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

We sort of have given up on the idea of taking any sort of personal responsibility for what we see. I don't understand it at all. There are many things that I won't let my kids watch.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

There are times when you need to pitch a fit and other times when you need to apply Catholic guilt, and it's just figuring out which is the most appropriate approach and then implementing it.

Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).

?i am aflat c? exist? hot?râri dificile È™i c?, uneori, nu avem cum s? È™tim ce e bine È™i ce e r?u de f?cut.

Have you not yet learned that villainy is not written on the face, but the heart?

Let your choice be: reject the wrong, but choose the right.

If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an ethical duty to decide between what is better and what is worse.

Just because we want something doesn't mean it's right

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.

One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.