Quotes About Ethics

Mithas"—"My honor is life.

Ma... dirlo così... come potrei. Come si può valutare una cosa simile... il disonore? Non dobbiamo valutare una cosa simile, signora. Deve dirmi che somma le piacerebbe avere.

That people kill themselves because of my books won't stop me from writing. If people turned into reactionaries, political assholes after reading me, yes, that would stop me from writing, but not if they killed themselves.

He used to say that sinning was not about the bad things you'd done and regretted but about the failure to do what you should have done. Especially for others.' She

Anything morally worthy in ourselves is corrupted if we wish to admire ourselves. And someone else remarked that there are no mirrors in heaven. There couldn't be, for the mirror is the symbolic antithesis of a glad, free offering of our full attention to

La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica.

Rien ne m'explique : mes vices et mes vertus n'y suffisent absolument pas ; mon bonheur le fait davantage.

Je me sentais responsable de la beauté du monde.

La moral es una convención privada; la decencia, una cuestión pública

mi colpirebbero di più se non mi venisse fatto di chiedere a me stesso in che cosa la sofferenza dell'erba falciata differisca essenzialmente da quella di un montone sgozzato, e se l'orrore che proviamo nel vedere trucidare un animale non dipenda soprattutto dal fatto che la nostra sensibilità appartiene al medesimo regno.

Il est étrange que pour nos chrétiens les prétendues désordres de la chair constituent le mal par excellence, dit méditativement Zénon. Personne ne punit avec rage et dégoût la brutalité, la sauvagerie, la barbarie, l'injustice. Nul demain ne s'avisera de trouver obscènes les bonnes gens qui viendront regarder mes tressautements dans les flammes.

L'incivilimento dei costumi, il progresso delle idee durante l'ultimo secolo è opera d'una minoranza esigua di spiriti illuminati; la massa resta ignara, feroce quando può, sempre egoista e gretta, e si può scommettere fondatamente che tale resterà sempre.

Le danger fait sortir le pire de l'âme humaine, et le meilleur aussi.

Mangiare carne è digerire le agonie di altri esseri viventi

N'ayant pas pu vivre selon la morale ordinaire, je tâche, du moins, d'être d'accord avec la mienne : c'est au moment où l'on rejette tous les principes qu'il convient de se munir de scrupules. J'avais pris envers vous d'imprudents engagements que devait protester la vie : je vous demande pardon, le plus humblement possible, non pas de vous quitter, mais d'être resté si longtemps.

Juzga para no ser juzgado el peor de los seres, el cobarde de espíritu, perezosamente dispuesto a todo, que se niega a juzgar.

When a man's over head and shoulders in debt, he may live the faster for it, and the better if he goes the right way about it, or else how is it so many live so well, as we see every day after they are ruined?

Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

Don't give anyone the proxy for your conscience.

If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.

If we're morally responsible for monitoring our own souls, then we're morally responsible, as well, for monitoring the soul of our nation.

Our government has become a system of legalized bribery