107 Quotes About Ethics-and-moral-philosophy

It's the love of right lures men to wrong.

Intrinsic personal value - the foundation of ethical value - starts when our individual life journeys begin. It ends only with the cessation of our existence.

Oni, naravno, imaju pravo da tako misle i zaslužuju poštovanje zbog svojih stajališta,“ rekao je Atticus, „ali prije nego što mogu živjeti s drugima, moram moći živjeti sam sa sobom. Savjest je jedna od stvari o kojoj se ne odlučuje glasovanjem većine.

Zaključak toga procesa? ''Neka su djela u sebi toliko užasna da se protive samoj naravi ljudskoga Bića''. Ta je istina temeljna, vrijedi za sve kulture, za svako vrijeme i prostor. ''Postoje zla djela koja se ničim ne mogu opravdati. Dehumanizirati ljudsko biće, uniziti muškarca ili ženu do razine parazita, mučiti ih i zaklati ne razmišljajući o njihovoj nevinosti ili krivnji, nanošenje boli pretvoriti u umijeće - pogrješno je.

Do you think it is possible to be a good person,even-though you might have done things that others think are bad or repulsive?"Francesca thought for a moment and then answered."I don't think,or better yet,understand how a good person could do bad things.

I don't work according to anyone's schedule, but according to my ethics.

The self-indulgent man, then, craves for all pleasant things or those that are most pleasant . . . Hence he is pained both when he fails to get them and when he is craving for them, for appetite involves pain.

The true enemy of good isn't evil, but fear. Evil will battle good, but fear will corrupt it.— a Merraban saying, quoted by Admiral Pachelbel

Loving comfort, risking little, terrified by the thought of change, (the middle class') aim is to establish a materialistic civilization which will banish threats to its complacency. It has conventions, not ideals; it is washed rather than clean. Thus the final degradation of the Baconian philosophy is that knowledge becomes power in the service of appetite.