Quotes About Ethics

He was a bad man, a bully and a thug, yet he was deeply religious in his way—I very much doubt that he would have made such a thing up. It was not his sort of lie, if you know what I mean.

Honesty, integrity, and intelligence cannot be kept down.

They were all thoroughly bad people of the type to which I myself belong—that is to say, bad people who are pleased to think themselves good.

When I think back on it, it was as if I had the Claw already, more than a year before I got it. I can't describe how he looked when he rolled his eye up to see me. He touched my heart. I never revived an animal when I had the Claw, but then I never tried. When I was among them, I was usually wishing I could kill one, because I wanted something to eat. Now I'm no longer sure that killing animals to eat is something we are meant to do.

Until we reach the end of time, we don't know whether something's been good or bad; we can only judge the intentions of those who acted.

Nice people were not supposed to be able to recognize certain things, because they were supposed to be so untainted that they couldn't even think about them.

if gold rust, what shall iron do? For if a Priest, upon whom we trust, be foul, no wonder a layman may yield to lust.

doctors & druggists wash each other's hands

High in moral virtue was his speech, and gladly would he learn and gladly teach.

But of no nombre mencioun made he, Of bigamye, or of octogamye33. Why sholde men thanne speke of it vileinye34?

for that which goes beyond moderation is folly and Sin.

la nobleza no depende de las posesiones, ya que la gente no siempre se ajusta al modelo

Another Sin of Lechery is to bereave a Maiden of her maidenhead, for he who does so, certainly, casts a Maiden out of the highest degree that exists in this present life, and deprives her of that precious fruit that the Book calls the "Hundred Fruits." I can not say it in any other way in English, but in Latin it is called Centesimus fructus.

Out of the gosple he tho wordes caughte, And this figure he added eek therto, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do? For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste, No wonder is a lewed man to ruste; And shame it is, if a prest take keep, A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep. Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yive, By his clennesse, how that his sheep sholde lyve.

Un hombre honrado y un ladrón nunca pueden pensar igual.

For whosoever seeks to snatch away from another those things that be his own, deserves to lose his own through him who he seeks to wrong.

No less enthusiastically, Churchill saw that air power 'may ultimately lead to a form of control over semi-civilised countries which will be found very effective and infinitely cheaper', adding that, 'I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes

Es gibt nur Epikureer, und zwar grobe und feine, Christus war der feinste; das ist der einzige Unterschied, den ich zwischen den Menschen herausbringen kann. Jeder handelt seiner Natur gemäß, d.h. er tut, was ihm wohltut.

Das Gewissen ist ein Spiegel, vor dem ein Affe sich quält; jeder putzt sich, wie er kann, und geht auf seine eigne Art auf seinen Spaß dabei aus.

When a father inquired about the best method of educating his son in ethical conduct, a Pythagorean replied: Make him a citizen of a state with good laws

Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.

Los griegos han tenido eticidad; pero Sócrates se propuso enseñarles las virtudes, los deberes, etc., morales, que tiene el hombre. El hombre moral no es el que quiere y hace lo justo; no es el hombre inocente, sino el que tiene conciencia de su acción.

One cannot speak of an injustice of nature in the unequal distribution of possessions and resources, for nature is not free and is therefore neither just nor unjust.

Aufklärung des Verstands macht zwar klüger, aber nicht besser.