“If you are not rising with ethics, you will sink with every rise!”
“Everything good is good because of the love it contains.”
“The answer can t be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You ve got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you ve got to learn to trust yourself”
“The code-of-ethics playlist: o Treat your colleagues, family, and friends with respect, dignity, fairness, and courtesy. o Pride yourself in the diversity of your experience and know that you have a lot to offer. o Commit to creating and supporting a world that is free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. o Have balance in your life and help others to do the same. o Invest in yourself, achieve ongoing enhancement of your skills, and continually upgrade your abilities. o Be approachable, listen carefully, and look people directly in the eyes when speaking. o Be involved, know what is expected from you, and let others know what is expected from them. o Recognize and acknowledge achievement. o Celebrate, relive, and communicate your successes on an ongoing basis.”
“Bonhoeffer examined and dismissed a number of approaches to dealing with evil. Reasonable people, he said, think that with a little reason, they can pull back together a structure that has come apart at the joints. Then there are the ethical fanatics who believe that they can face the power of evil with the purity of their will and their principles. Men of conscience become overwhelmed because the countless respectable and seductive disguises and masks in which evil approaches them make their conscience anxious and unsure until they finally content themselves with an assuaged conscience instead of a good conscience. They must deceive their own conscience in order not to despair. Finally there are some who retreat to a private virtuousness. Such people neither steal, nor murder,nor commit adultery, but do good according to their abilities. but... they must close their eyes and ears to the injustice around them. Only at the cost of self-deception can they keep their private blamelessness clean from the stains of responsible action in the world. In all that they do, what they fail to do will not let them rest.”
“If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you?”
“Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.”
“We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible’s single greatest and most counterintuitive contribution to ethics. God creates difference; therefore it is in one-who-is-different that we meet god. Abraham encounters God when he invites three strangers into his tent.”
“It is very wrong to kill any one[.] Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!”
“The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.”
“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.”
“Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.”
“I am not well-versed in theory, but in my view, the cow deserves her life. As does the ram. As does the ladybug. As does the elephant. As do the fish, and the dog and the bee; as do other sentient beings. I will always be in favor of veganism as a minimum because I believe that sentient beings have a right not to be used as someone else s property. They ask us to be brave for them, to be clear for them, and I see no other acceptable choice but to advocate veganism. If these statements make me a fundamentalist, then I will sew a scarlet F on my jacket so that all may know I m fundamentally in favor of nonviolence; may they bury me in it so that all will know where I stood.”
“Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we ve yet to win. You d think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven t actually produced the promised results.”
“Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.”
“Without ethics, science would be cruelty.”
“The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.”