ethics

"After all, there are two worlds which confront each other. And they are right when they say: 'We can never reconcile ourselves to the National Socialist world.' For how could a narrow-minded capitalis…"

"Somebody said I’m the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters."

"Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure … There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, u…"

"An undifferentiated absolute is normatively impotent because it can offer no principle for the apportionment of responsibility."

"3313. Make a Virtue of Necessity."

"Immorality is the morality of those who are having a better time. You will never convince the average farmer's mare that the late Maud S. was not dreadfully immoral."

"The collegiate young are being re-educated before they have been educated. From our collegiate ranks, the therapeutic will appear a re-educated man, one who can conquer even his subtler inhibitions; h…"

"For me, the story always comes from character whether they're ponies or robots or aliens."

"“We must resist these reactionary measures which are founded on the principle of communal Fascism."

"I'm pro-choice, but I believe that most abortions are immoral. I take the nuanced middle ground."

"Almost all of the material phenomena which occur under terrestrial conditions are recognized as quantum mechanical consequences of the electrical attraction between electrons and nuclei and of the gra…"

"The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite."

"Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much."

"Our patients are the ones who express and live out the subconscious and unconscious tendencies in the culture. The neurotic, or person suffering from what we now call character disorder, is characteri…"

"If we are asked what is the most essential characteristic that underlies this word, the word itself will guide us to gentleness, to absence of such things as brow-beating, overbearing manners and fuss…"

"A man with no enemies is a man with no character."

"Indeed, racist views about the demographic 'threat' that the Palestinians constitute for a Jewish supremacist Israel are not confined to Ariel Sharon and the Israeli Jewish right wing , but are also v…"

"I assure you that I shall never cease to exert myself to the utmost in the cause of reform, and that I will never decline any office which may increase my power to effect it. I am nearly certain of be…"

"To act nobly, a noble heart is not enough. It needs help from a sharp mind. Though the beginnings of ethical virtue lie in habituation, starting in our youth, and though the core of moral virtue is th…"

"To sum up then, the best solution for ensuring world peace is the widespread promotion of contraception or abortion. Abortion is a drastic measure and can involve serious emotional disturbance. Furthe…"