Quotes About Ethics

Still, Roosevelt noted, it was "not always easy to strike the just middle," and he inevitably made mistakes.

The majority of the great fortunes were "won not by doing evil, but as an incident to action which has benefited the community as a whole.

be a wrong to me; and much worse, a wrong to the country." The standards

Lincoln always believed, he later said, that "if slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and he could not remember when he did not "so think, and feel.

We should constantly be reminded of what we owe in return for what we have.

At this introductory stage of his career, Roosevelt viewed politics in a puritanical light, as an arena where good battled evil. He had seen his father's dreams of high office undone by corruption; he had absorbed his father's warning that the country could not much longer stand "so corrupt a government.

him under the heaviest strain to barter his convictions for the sake of holding office.

People don't mind immoral messages. They don't mind art which says that murder is good, cruelty is good, sex for sex's sake is good. They like it, provided the message is wrapped up a little. And they like messages saying that murder is bad, cruelty is bad, and love is love is love is love. What they can't stand is to be told it all doesn't matter, they can't stand formlessness.

Do you really think it's right for a socialist to get what he wants by making a fool of an old woman?' 'I'm earning her a lot of money.' 'I was talking about sex,' said Paul, and Willi said: 'I don't know what you mean.' He didn't. Men are far more unconscious than women about using their sex this way; far less honest.

These might work, fight, even commit crimes to get "their" representatives into power, but after that they did not consider they had any responsibility for their choices. For a feature, perhaps a predominant feature of the inhabitants of this planet, was that their broken minds allowed them to hold, and act on—even forcibly and violently—opinions and sets of mind that a short time later—years, a month, even a few minutes—they might utterly repudiate.

Do you imagine, Ted, that if you are kind to servants you are going to advance the cause of socialism?" "Yes," Ted had said. "Then I can't help you," Willi had said, with a shrug, meaning there was no hope for him. Jimmy

That's what I feel too—people aren't taking responsibility for each other. You said the socialists had ceased to be a moral force, for the time, at least, because they wouldn't take moral responsibility. Except for a few people. You said that, didn't you—well then. But you write and write in notebooks, saying what you think about life, but you lock them up, and that's not being responsible." "A very great

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Algunos no saben distinguir el bien del mal ni siquiera cuando se les muestra.

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.

Though whether the mass murder of strangers for one's principles ranks higher in virtue than attacking one's neighbours for the hell of it is a point I'm glad I don't have to settle.

Lymond said gently, Let us bathe in moral philosophy, as in a living river. Double-dealing is my business.

Although I despise the hanging jaw of hunger, I do not intend that the needy should look to me for their banquet.

Religion in recent years has become a political sport, and politicians are more skilful than honest men at extracting themselves from disasters.

Marthe said, her face streaked and silvered with tears, "I could not have done that. I fear nothing and no one. I respect nothing and no one. But I could not have done that." "You have done it," Jerott said. "It is easy to do it, out of hatred. But you are right. I know of no one else on earth who could have done it out of love.

I do not know whether this man is a traitor or not, but he is an individualist, and in war the two are the same.

It was to be expected that when he became in turn a leader of men, Francis should prove hard on others; should observe no laws; should fight, regardless of method, for victory.

Your right to die? They accept that already. It is I," said Sybilla, "who do not.

You are the only person with a shaky interest in ethics and the emotional stability of a quince seed in a cup of lukewarm water.....