Quotes About Ethics

Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

Do right and you will be conspicuous.

De todos los animales, el hombre es el único que es cruel. Es el único que infringe dolor por el placer de hacerlo.

Tom!, ¿cómo pudiste ser tan noble?

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Ä°nsan dürüstlüÄŸünün mimar? kendisi deÄŸildir.

An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth—a fact that is recognized by the law of libel.

Can any plausible excuse be furnished for the crime of creating the human race?

No fact is more firmly established than that lying is a necessity of our circumstances--the deduction that it is then a Virtue goes without saying.

I wasn't feeling so brash as I was before, but kind of ornery, and humble, and to blame, somehow—though I hadn't done nothing. But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.

The man who speaks an injurious truth lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

The doctor's job was to shut up long enough to let the patient be the most important person in the room, because she was. There was an unforced and absolutely real respect for people just because they were people. And we, as doctors, were their servants. For all the things that felt wrong, that felt right. If you weren't an idealist, why would you go to medical school?

Treating sickness as a business opportunity has just about killed the joy of healing, the very reason most doctors and nurses wanted to go into it in the first place.

So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But then I justify, in my own particular thoughts, by feeling that I can contribute a little to the understanding of what others are going through; then there is reason for doing it.

It is a justice forever informed by the deepest kind of agony.

You hide a Jew. You pay. Somehow or other, you must.

Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.

You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.

We might be criminals, but we're not totally immoral

Može li netko ukrasti sre?u? Ili je i to još jedan unutarnji, pakleni ljudski trik?

Može li netko ukrasti sre?u? Ili je i to još jedan unutarnji, paklenski ljudski trik?

As she rode, she tried to tell herself something. / You don't deserve to be this happy, Liesl. You really don't. / Can a person steal happiness? Or is it just another internal, infernal human trick?

Don't get caught.' This from a man who'd stolen a Jew.

Se puede robar la felicidad? ¿O es sólo otro infernal truco humano?