Quotes About Ethics

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Our only choice is between irrespirable truths and salutary frauds.

L'uomo attenderà sempre l'avvento della giustizia; e, affinché trionfi, rinuncerà alla libertà, per poi rimpiangerla.

P?catul este expresia religioas? a remu?c?rii, precum regretul expresia ei poetic?. Primul este o limit? superioar?; ultimul, una inferioar?

La puntualidad es una variedad de la «locura del escrúpulo». Por llegar a la hora, yo sería capaz de cometer un crimen.

We invest ourselves with an abusive superiority when we tell someone what we think of him and of what he does. Frankness is not compatible with a delicate sentiment, nor even with an ethical exigency.

Can we imagine a city dweller who does not have the soul of a murderer?

A man who has completely vanquished selfishness, who retains no trace of it whatever, cannot live longer than twenty-one days

Annas and Caiaphas embodied, to my eyes, good sense itself.

For at any price we must keep those who have too clear a conscience from living and dying in peace.

All thoughts are alike the moans of a worm stepped on by the angels

The confessional? a rape of conscience perpetrated in the name of heaven. And that other rape, psychological analysis

A ciência pode perfeitamente nos dizer de que maneira as causas produzem seus efeitos, não que finalidades devem ser buscadas; ela observa, explica, mas não julga: o bem e o mal não existem para ela.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering; it is nonetheless true that we find it right that he should suffer.

we should not say that an act offends the common consciousness because it is criminal, but that it is criminal because it offends the common consciousness

Methodological rules are for science what rules of law and custom are for conduct.

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.

Respectable people... What bastards!

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

Churchill era convinto della diseguaglianza delle razze e della superiorità della razza anglosassone; esaltava la vita militare, il valore etico della guerra e la sua necessità nella lotta per l'esistenza; glorificava l'impero britannico ed era deciso a conservarlo integro con qualsiasi mezzo, contro ogni aspirazione all'indipendenza dei popoli coloniali.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.