Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a...

Señal de tener gastada la fama propia es cuidar de la infamia ajena.

we (modern society) make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for power’s ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future...

Diese Haltung zur Opferung von Menschenleben ist seltsam. Militärbefehlshaber überlegen nicht zweimal, wenn sie Soldaten in die Schlacht schicken und dabei genau wissen, dass viele von ihnen sterben werden. […] Andererseits verbietet es der Offiziersethos,...

Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one’s position in relation to them; never can one measure one’s velocity or...

His moral lectureblazed with hate.What could have driven a child that far?

Now here comes in the whole collapse and huge blunder of our age. We have mixed up two different things, two opposite things. Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to suit...

Ethics change with technology.

You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively.

And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them. They knew that the team and the wagon were worth much more....

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.The usual way of looking at...

I’ve handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

If you are not rising with ethics, you will sink with every rise!

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

Our gods, if we choose to believe in them, must be forced to live up to ethics that far surpass our own human standards. If they fall short of the ethical conditions we place upon...

How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?

So what if twenty of these are non-stories, I at least had five I believed in.

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

Be true to yourself-at the core of your leadership are your values and morals.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

I’m beginning to wonder,” said Kent, sitting down now on an overturned wooden tub. “Who do I serve? Why am I here?”You are here, because, in the expanding ethical ambiguity of our situation, you are...

Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren’t is because you have a conscience.

These attorneys speaking out – they feel a need to defend their clients. Ethics rules (in North Carolina) allow for that. I think any criminal attorney would not be serving their client’s interests if they...

Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.

The problem, really, is that while humanity continues to experience huge leaps in technology, we experience no equivalent leaps in our ethical capacity. In the never-ending arms race between technology and ethics, technology always wins....

Miller believes, like many theists, that religion brings us beyond the bounds of materialism. (Ironically he insists on a material explanation [evolution] for our existence.) However, he fails to explain how religion does this. Will...

grown up” and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.

What men do matters more than what they know.

Don’t just do what is required, do what is respected.

Judge character by behavior.

Oh, you humans may prefer empathy and mercy, but that’s like intuiting the answer to an equation: you still have to go back and work the problem to be certain you were right. We can...

Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.

Moral war für ihn [..] das unendliche Ganze der Möglichkeiten zu leben.

The seriousness of throwing over hell whilst still clinging to the Atonement is obvious. If there is no punishment for sin there can be no self-forgiveness for it. If Christ paid our score, and if...

To paraphrase Lucretius, there’s nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of...

Liberty medals…Are they trying to bribe me with coloured ribbons? I wouldn’t kill a man for one of those things. Or go and be killed. Any shooting I do is to save my own life,...

High Europe always played at ethnic contempt because it was High Europe, and so had the strength, the authority, to make the racial rules. We great unwashed of the outer world, on the coasts of...