Umberto Eco - Quotes

 ... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene. 

Tags: ethics     


Jessica Valenti - Quotes

 FOr women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as you've never had sex, you're a  

Tags: ethics   feminism   virginity     
Theodor W. Adorno - Quotes

 It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies. 

Tags: auschwitz   ethics   progress   torture     


George Orwell - Quotes

 For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable  

Tags: ethics   logic   metaphysics   ontology   philosophy   psychology   science     
Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil. Without the stern, joyless rabbis and their 613 dour prohibitions, we might have avoided the whole nightmare of the Old Testament, and the brutal, crude wrenching of that into prophecy-derived Christianity, and the later plagiarism and mutation of Judaism and Christianity into the various rival forms of Islam. Much of the time, I do concur with Voltaire, but not without acknowledging that Judaism is dialectical. There is, after all, a specifically Jewish version of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, with a specifically Jewish name 

Tags: antisemitism   assimilation   atheism   christianity   dialectics   education   enlightenment   ethics   evil   exile   germans   haskalah   intellect   islam   judaism   life   messianism   monotheism   plagiarism   prohibitions   prophecy   rabbis   rebbes   religion   return   rituals   study   thought     
U Turn - Quotes

 Jake McKenna:
A man with no ethics is a free man.
 

Tags: Man Quotes   Ethics Quotes     
Voltaire - Quotes

 It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. 

Tags: ethics   governments   humor   irony   killing   mankind   morality   murder   nationalism   nations     
Moll Flanders - Quotes

 Hibble:
Circumstances have taught me that a man's ethics are the only possessions he will take beyond the grave.
 

Tags: Circumstances Quotes   Possessions Quotes   Will Quotes   Ethics Quotes     
Howard Zinn - Quotes

 I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers 

Tags: complacency   ethics   humanity   independence   politics   society     
Epictetus - Quotes

 You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is. 

Tags: ethics   integrity   path   stoicism     
Elie Wiesel - Quotes

 There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. 

Tags: activism   ethics   justice   philosophy     
Michael Pollan - Quotes

 Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do. 

Tags: animals   ethics   industry   meat     
Arrested Development - Quotes

 George Michael Bluth:
[George Michael is in love with his ethics teacher] I don't want to let down Miss Baerly. She's nice, you know?
Lindsay Funke:
She's interesting... and pretty?
George Michael Bluth:
Well, I don't know why I'm telling you this. I guess there's just some things you can't always say to your dad.
Lindsay Funke:
Ah. sounds like you'd like her to be more than just your teacher.
Narrator:
Lindsay believed that George Michael wanted to fix up his father so he could fill the role of his mother.
Lindsay Funke:
There's nothing wrong with that. Although... I must say I'm a little hurt that you haven't considered me.
George Michael Bluth:
You're my aunt.
Lindsay Funke:
That doesn't matter. Aunts can fill that role. Teachers can fill that role. And, someday, you're going to find the right woman to fill that role. But until then... I'll be right across the hall.
Narrator:
Lindsay had never been more proud of anything she had said in her entire life.
George Michael Bluth:
Yikes.
 

Tags: Love Quotes   Man Quotes   Teachers Quotes   Ethics Quotes   Hurt Quotes     
Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough 

Tags: afterlife   atheism   debate   ethics   existence   existentialism   faith   life   materialism   morality   naturalism   religion   respect   supernaturalism     
Abraham Lincoln - Quotes

 But for this book we could not know right from wrong. (When the committee for Colored People gave Lincoln a Bible in 1864) 

Tags: bible   ethics     
HouseSitter - Quotes

 Newton Davis:
So, what do you think, can you show this to Moseby?
Marty:
Ah... you'd better do it.
Newton Davis:
Why? He likes you.
Marty:
Davis, if I take that in there and Moseby starts carrying on about how brilliant it is... I'm going to take the credit.
Newton Davis:
What?
Marty:
Mmm hmm.
Newton Davis:
You're my friend, where are your ethics?
Marty:
My ethics are that I know this about myself, so I'm not going to take this in there and screw you over.
 

Tags: Ethics Quotes     
Jeremy Bentham - Quotes

 A full grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversible animal, than an infant of a day, a week, or even [a] month old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? 

Tags: ethics   suffering   utilitarianism     
Ursula K. Le Guin - Quotes

 The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness. 

Tags: darwin   ethics   evolution   p195   peace   strength   survival     
Thomas Hardy - Quotes

 We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. 

Tags: ethics   morality   psychology     
Mary Midgley - Quotes

 The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled. 

Tags: conflict   ethics   philosophy   vegetarian   vegetarianism     
Albert Schweitzer - Quotes

 The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another. 

Tags: ethics     
Shirley Chisholm - Quotes

 When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. 

Tags: capitalism   compassion   ethics   greed     
Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil. 

Tags: ethics   nietzsche   philosophy   tradition     
Jean-Paul Sartre - Quotes

 One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes 

Tags: ethics   logic   metaphysics   ontology   philosophy   psychology   science     
Aristotle - Quotes

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

Tags: ethics   philosophy     
Ayn Rand - Quotes

 Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their  

Tags: addiction   ethics   moral     
George Bernard Shaw - Quotes

 While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? 

Tags: ethics   vegetarianism     
Bertrand Russell - Quotes

 We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach. 

Tags: ethics     
Plato - Quotes

 Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig? 

Tags: ethics   learning   truth     
Erich Fromm - Quotes

 It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health. 

Tags: ethics     
J.M. Coetzee - Quotes

 Diese Haltung zur Opferung von Menschenleben ist seltsam. Milit 

Tags: ethics   heroism   military     
Isaac Bashevis Singer - Quotes

 People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. 

Tags: ethics   vegetarian   vegetarianism     
Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes

 The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. 

Tags: animals   ethics   gandhi   morals     
John Rawls - Quotes

 Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice. 

Tags: ethics   justice   philosophy     
John Ralston Saul - Quotes

 Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong. 

Tags: ethics   government   morals     
Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience. 

Tags: ethics   nietzsche     
Thomas Keneally - Quotes

 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 new continents, though we might ourselves have behaved atrociously to indigenes, were baffled by the determination with which Europe returned to the frenzies of racial myth. Nice boys and not-so-nice boys took up the theme, put on the uniform, did the dirty work. 

Tags: ethics   europe   race     
Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many.  

Tags: dogmatism   ethics   nietzsche     
Stephen Prothero - Quotes

 On the ethics of war the Quran and the New Testament are worlds apart. Whereas Jesus tells us to turn the other cheek, the Quran tells us, 'Whoso commits aggression against you, do you commit aggression against him' (2:194). The New Testament says nothing about how to wage war. The Quran, by contrast, is filled with just-war precepts. Here war is allowed in self-defense (2:190; 22:39), but hell is the punishment for killing other Muslims (4:93), and the execution of prisoners of war is explicitly condemned (47:4). Whether in the abstract is is better to rely on a scripture that regulates war or a scripture that hopes war away is an open question, but no Muslim-majority country has yet dropped an atomic bomb in war. 

Tags: christianity   ethics   islam   religion   scripture     
Albert Schweitzer - Quotes

 Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. 

Tags: compassion   ethics   peace   vegetarianism     
Albert Schweitzer - Quotes

 Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. 

Tags: ethics   suffering   vegetarianism     
Albert Einstein - Quotes

 I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. 

Tags: ethics     
Stanley Milgram - Quotes

 The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. 

Tags: authority   ethics   government   obendience   responsibility   society   state     
Christopher Moore - Quotes

 I'm beginning to wonder, 

Tags: ethics   fool   kent   morality     
Aristotle - Quotes

 I count him braver who overcomes his

desires than him who conquers his enemies,

for the hardest victory is over self. 

Tags: ethics   philosphy     
Christopher Moore - Quotes

 You're trying to be tricky. What's morality? 

Tags: ethics   humans     
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Quotes

 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. 

Tags: ethics   vegetarianism     
Friedrich Nietzsche - Quotes

 I obviously do everything to be  

Tags: ethics   nietzsche     
Josh Rushing - Quotes

 In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches  

Tags: ethics   marines   maxim   right   usmc     


Quotes of the Day

RECENT MEMBERS

all recent members

POPULAR MEMBERS

all popular members