Quotes About Ethics

It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

You know I have duties??we both have duties??before which feeling must be sacrificed.

For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.

There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

But I wasn't worth doing wrong for---- nothing is in this world. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Even much stronger mortals than Fred Vincy hold half their rectitude in the mind of the being they love best.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves:

It was a constant source of irritation to him that the public men on his side were, on the whole, not conspicuously better than the public men on the other side.

all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly speaking, was the dread of a Hereafter.

Indeed we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

we are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

It is a woman's duty not to lower herself.

I hold it a crime to expose a man's sin unless I'm clear it must be done to save the innocent

To point out other people's errors was a duty that Mr. Bulstrode rarely shrank from

porque nada me dá mais a volta às tripas do que um homem que prega a sua religião sem dar descanso a ninguém e que apregoa que os dez mandamentos para ele não chegam, ao mesmo tempo que é pior do que metade dos que estão no degredo.