Quotes About Ethics

Bondade é que se escolhe. Quando um homem não pode escolher, ele deixa de ser um homem.

It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want woodness (goodness) or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some ways better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Perhaps the ultimate act of evil is dehumanization, the killing of the soul

Le bien est un choix. Tout homme incapable de choisir cesse d'être un homme.

A human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange.

Es tan inhumano ser totalmente bueno como totalmente malvado. Lo importante es la elección moral.

Tanr? ne ister? Tanr? iyilik mi ister yoksa iyi olma seçeneÄŸini mi? KötülüÄŸü seçen bir insan, kendisine iyilik dayat?lm?? bir insandan baz? aç?lardan daha üstün olabilir mi? (syf. 84)

tanr?n?n istediÄŸi iyilik mi yoksa iyiliÄŸi seçebilme ÅŸans?na sahip olabilmek mi? kötülüÄŸü seçen biri gerçekte iyiliÄŸe zorlanan birinden daha m? geçerli tanr?n?n gözünde?

Nincs választási lehetÅ'sége, vagy igen? Az önérdek, a testi fájdalomtól való rettegés bírta rá erre a groteszk megalázkodásra. A dolog Å'szintétlensége nyilvánvaló volt. Többé nem követ el rosszat. De nem is lesz lehetÅ'sége erkölcsi választásra.

What does God want? Does God want woodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Bizim elimizde kapa??n? açmay? reddettiÄŸimiz bir ÅŸiÅŸe su su varken yan?m?zda susuzluktan ölen birine aÄŸlamak kötülüklerin en büyüÄŸüdür...

All we know is that men move, men change, and that the sufferings they undergo—and will themselves to undergo—are both wrong and right.

Nem jobb-e bizonyos értelemben az, aki a rosszat választja, mint az, akire rákényszerítik a jót?

Do good a thousand days,     But the good is still insufficient;     Do evil for one day,     And that evil is already excessive.

He saw that as usual it would be better to be careful as for some years now he had found being good to be almost out of the question.

His own relations with the opposite sex took an exclusively commercial form. 'I've never had a free poke in my life,' he said. 'Subject doesn't seem to arise when you're talking to a respectable woman.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." —JOHN WOODEN

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. —MARCUS AURELIUS

No obstante, una empresa puede beneficiarse a corto plazo y no estar aquí a largo plazo, si no añade valor a la vida de otras personas y lo hace de forma continuada. Eso es tan cierto para las grandes empresas como para los individuos.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. —UPTON SINCLAIR

Brokers are butchers, while fiduciaries are dietitians.

Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.

every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially from a daughter.

If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil!