Quotes About Ethics

Another division was even tougher in its views. 'We have never been benefited by treating prisoners well . . . We are here to Kill Germans, not to baby them.' Some soldiers in the 30th Division exacted their own revenge when they captured Germans wearing American combat boots taken from the dead. They forced them at gunpoint to remove them and walk barefoot along the icy roads.

Frontline soldiers are advancing day and night under fire, with pure and saintly hearts. The rear echelon men who follow along behind are raping, drinking and looting.

Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral

she apprehended the rare purity of accomplishment which brought no personal gain.

Nobody can live a continuous lie and find serenity.

They're all examples of self-betrayal — times when I had a sense of something I should do for others but didn't do it.

I understand that I may not be responsible for the things he's done. But I am responsible for what I've done.

Which is to say," he continued, "that when I violate the sensibility I have about others and how I should be toward them, I immediately begin to see the world in ways that justify my self-betrayal. In those moments, I am beginning to see and live crookedly, which creates the need within me to be justified.

The most effective leaders lead in this single way: by holding themselves more accountable than all.

Character is who you are when nobody else is watching," he wrote in one of his books—the undeniable, hokey truth.

La excelencia moral es resultado del hábito. Nos volvemos justos realizando actos de justicia; templados, realizando actos de templanza; valientes, realizando actos de valentía.

Politics these days in no occupation for an honest man ... neither educated nor honest, he has to be an ignoramus & a rogue.

El guiar al pueblo no es cosa de un hombre culto ni de buenos principios, sino de un ignorante y bellaco (Los caballeros, 424 aC)

Mutlu kiÅŸi hayat?n getirdiklerine göre bir mutlu bir mutsuz olan kiÅŸi deÄŸil, yaÅŸam boyu erdemli davranan talihin cilvelerine onurlu bir ÅŸekilde katlanan ve elindekileriyle en iyi ÅŸekilde davranan kiÅŸidir.

I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

The Law is Reason free from Passion.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there's too much corruption in the world

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement....

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.