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You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?"
"It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize."
"Must be a human thing."
"Exactly.

Christopher Moore

Stichwörter: ethics humans

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

John Stuart Mill

Stichwörter: morality ethics action responsibility inaction injury

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.

John Stuart Mill

Stichwörter: pain ethics philosophy pleasure greatest-happiness-principle moral-philosophy utilitarianism utility

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

Dag Hammarskjöld

Stichwörter: ethics humans

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

John Ralston Saul

Stichwörter: ethics morals government

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

Darby Conley

Stichwörter: ethics

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.

Howard Zinn

Stichwörter: politics society ethics self-determination independence autonomy proactivity complacency

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

G.K. Chesterton

Stichwörter: ethics firearms

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.

Erich Fromm

Stichwörter: ethics culture-critique humanist-psychology mental-health socio-analysis