←

Julian Baggini Zitate

→

I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.

Julian Baggini

Bewertung: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5,0 Sterne
Deutsche Übersetzung

Ich halte die Wichtigkeit eines absoluten Verbots gegen Folter für wichtig und erkenne an, dass sogar absolute Verbote manchmal gebrochen werden können. Wenn dies ein Widerspruch ist, dann ist es ein Widerspruch, den die Ethik annehmen muss, oder er wird wie Glas: hart, klar, aber fatal unflexibel.

← Vorheriges Zitat
Nächstes Zitat →

Ähnliche Autoren

Dorothy L. Sayers George Eliot George Orwell Ian Fleming J. G. Ballard James Allen Neil Gaiman Virginia Woolf

Ähnliche Themen

Absolut / Absolute Bedeutung / Importance Danksagung / Acknowledging Ethik / Ethics Folter / Torture Gebrochen / Broken Gegen / Against Glas / Glass Klar / Clear Manchmal / Sometimes Mögen / Like Pflegen / Maintain Schwer / Hard Sogar / Even Sonst / Else Umarmung / Embrace Unflexibel / Inflexible Verbot / Prohibition Während / While Widerspruch / Contradiction Wird / Becomes

Ähnliche Zitate

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.

William S. Burroughs

If the scale of gas is anything like the claims made by its advocates, it has major implications for the economy and British society. Besides its worrying environmental aspects, it could have adverse effects on income distribution.

Guy Standing

Most people are embarrassed to admit there's another human being that's in control of them, that your heart beats three times as fast because you've given yourself to someone else.

Jerry Lewis

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.

Ernst Thalmann

Life gives you so many alternatives to choose from, and... you judge these as best as you can until something comes along like 9/11. And it's the central event of my lifetime, so I knew I had to write about that.

Lawrence Wright

Given that the president has not yet demonstrated why military action is in our best interest, given that the administration will not be constrained to keep boots off the ground, and given that there is no clear end-game, I am against the president's resolution to go to war in Syria.

Scott Garrett

The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.

Marianne Williamson

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

Jules Verne