Hugo Chavez Quotes

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

One cannot but regret the deliberate absence of every transcendental moral reference in governing the so-called developed society.

Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

There can be no fundamental distinction between what is morally right and what is politically right.

Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles.

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.

You can't legislate morality.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.