471 quotes found
“May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.”
“Ethical principles stand above the existence of the nation and that by adhering to these principles an individual belongs to the community of all those who share, who have shared, and who will shar...”
“There is nothing that exists outside or inside to punish us or take a note of every action of ours, but its our own understanding towards life, that allows us to experience, different pain and plea...”
“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 "good" (i.e. "moral) girl ...”
“And so I pray I am today as honestwith myself, with life all around me and below and above me,with all who I encounter.”
“How did Ixtel become real for me? The world is full of Ixtels who I can help without hurting my father. Why this one? How was it her suffering that touched me? Father. I feel connected to her throu...”
“Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.”
“One might say that there is an "ethics barrier " a speed above which ethics can no longer exit. After that point the only remaining goal is to survive the immediate moment.”
“For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while ...”
“A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.”
“Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.”
“From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objecti...”
“Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attemp...”
“As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the sacredness of human life remains a shameful lie...”
“I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.”
“From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.”
“The word "rights", is something that governments need to provide you and protect you from but, the governments are the basic violators of all human rights.”
“This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails--eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is ...”
“An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern”
“We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.”
