ethical value Quotes

The words of Jesus, as distinguishable from the matter in which they are embedded as diamonds in dunghills. A more precious morsel of ethics was never seen.

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i.e., price, but an intrinsic worth, i.e., a dignity.

Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal

As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase “Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben” (“reverence for life”).

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.

Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.

There is no more important value than upholding the right to life in all circumstances.

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch.

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.