ethics

"I will never forget that, in the hurricane of my adolescence, I found refuge in the deep nest of the Ethics."

"I do not hate the white man; you see, his position of domination has placed him in a position of moral weakness."

"...for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens..."

"There are people who have an instinctive yet perfect moral judgment, who can perform the most complex ethical calculations like an Indian peasant can sometimes perform astounding mathematical feats in…"

"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."

"On the whole, the Old Testament cannot be considered a moral guide. Jehovah was not a moral God. He had all the vices, and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out his threats, but he never…"

"“Leaders demonstrate integrity and character by their actions an their words. They keep their promises. They demonstrate by their behavior the true depth of their beliefs—and it aligns with what they …"

"Morality is herd instinct in the individual."

"To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto."

"I believe that there is, from the ethical point of view, no symmetry between suffering and happiness, or between pain and pleasure. Both the greatest happiness principle of the Utilitarians and Kant's…"

"Our morality itself is the result of a process of cultural selection. Those things survive which enable the species to multiply."

"It is above all the impersonal and economically rationalized character of purely commercial relationships that evokes the suspicion, never clearly expressed but all the more strongly felt, of ethical …"

"We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people."

"The character wasn't polite, so when I shook Grazer's hand and he said, 'Hi, I'm the producer,' I said, 'I'm sorry. You look like you're 12 years old. I like to work with men.'"

"The physical capacity to coerce others can never generate a moral obligation to obey the dictates of power."

"The prophets were the heralds of the fundamental truth that religion and ethics are inseparable, and that ethical conduct is the supreme and sufficient religious act. If that principle had been fully …"

"Remember, the ultimate object of Marxist Communism is to return to the Garden of Eden with no forbidden fruit. That’s the goal of libertarianism as well. And we’re marching rapidly in that direction. …"

"If these principles are sound, two conclusions follow. The individual and the local, state, and national political units ought to be permitted to assume their own responsibilities. Any other course in…"

"The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality a…"

"A moral of the story is that models that aim to explore fundamental processes should be judged by their fruitfulness, not by their accuracy. For this purpose, realistic representation of many details …"