Quotes About Ethics

You don't mind breaking the law?" "Not in the least." "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "Not in a good cause.

It is every man's business to see justice done.

It is only goodness which gives extra...

we live in a utilitarian age. Honour is a mediaeval conception.

A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be built on ten thousand ruined men who were left without the means of life.

when a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it.

I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.

Le mauvais gout mène au crime.

Há momentos, meu jovem, que cada um de nós deve se posicionar em prol da justiça e dos direitos humanos, ou você nunca mais se sentirá limpo outra vez.

there is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman

Le mauvais goût méne au crime[

The proper study of mankind is man,' you know.

Honesty and Poetry are the same thing

No good can ever come of falsehood

I may be on the side of the Angels ,but don't think for one second that I am one of them.

Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean?

It was simply because, as a doctor, I don't believe a drug should be taken for anything that is just uncomfortable or self-limiting.

that man is a reality, mankind an abstraction; that men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathematical operations; that the end justifies the means only within very narrow limits; that ethics is not a function of social utility, and charity not a petty bourgeois sentiment but the gravitational force which keeps civilization in its orbit.

and there was only one revolutionary virtue which he had not learned, the virtue of self-deception

Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.

Only once did he remark when the starter,which he was trying to open,literally fell to pieces in his hands,:'If you would write for those filthy boulevard papers,monsieur,you could soon buy a Chevrolet'(which was quite unture:In France the prostitutes of the pen were just as badly rewarded as their colleagues on the street corners).

He is damned always to do that which is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer, in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs so that no more lambs may be slaughtered, to whip people with knouts so that they may learn not to let themselves be whipped, to strip himself of every scruple in the name of a higher scrupulousness, and to challenge the hatred of mankind because of his love for it—an abstract and geometric love.

To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one's own conscience is to abandon mankind. History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

And yet if it be sometimes necessary to conceal facts with words, then it should be done in such manner that it shall not appear; or should it be observed, then a defense should be promptly ready. Niccolò Machiavelli, "Confidential Instructions" to Raffaello Girolami (trans. C. Detmold) But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. Matthew 5:37 1.