Quotes About Ethics

How wrong it is to take the good for bad, purely at random, or take the bad for good.

Not if you rule unjustly.

Aren't you ashamed, with the land so sick, to stir up private quarrels?

Evil gains work their punishment.

And whoever places a friend above the good of his own country, he is nothing: I have no use for him. Zeus my witness, Zeus who sees all things

If he cannot reap his profits fairly cannot restrain himself from outrage— mad, laying hands on the holy things untouchable!

Tis hard for power to observe each pious rule.

If thou dost count a virtue stubbornness, Unschooled by reason, thou art much astray.

Bu durumda dostlar?m, ne ak?ll? ne dindar olmak mümkündür; kötülüÄŸün içinde bizi kötülüÄŸe zorlayan güç çok büyüktür.

I'm so immersed in all this evil, how could I not be evil too?

If what you plan is just, why do it in the dark?

Sei abile con la lingua. Ma non conosco nessun uomo onesto che trovi parole belle per ogni circostanza

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What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

The good is by virtue my willing it. Otherwise it has no existence.

Upravo loša savest može u?initi život zanimljivim.

See karma, make dharma

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

Everyone should try to scratch their name on the bomb of life.

Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.