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Quotes About Ethics

Conscience renders one as unfit for the revolution as a double chin. Conscience eats through the brain like a cancer, until the whole of the grey matter is devoured.
~ Arthur Koestler
It is impossible to reign innocently. Saint-Just
~ Arthur Koestler
You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.
~ Arthur Miller
Sex, sin, and the Devil were early linked.
~ Arthur Miller
What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
~ Arthur Miller
Pontius Pilate! God will not let you clean your hands of this!
~ Arthur Miller
There are certain men in the world who rather see everybody hung before they'll take blame.
~ Arthur Miller
Bir inanç ortal??? kana boyuyorsa, o inanca sar?l?p kalmay?n, insan? can?ndan eden bir yasa yanl?? bir yasad?r.YaÅŸam, kad?n?m, yaÅŸam. Tanr?n?n en deÄŸerli lütfudur bize. Hiçbir ilke ne kadar yüksek, ne kadar parlak olursa olsun, kimseye can almak hakk?n? vermez.
~ Arthur Miller
PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!
~ Arthur Miller
Chris: For me! Where do you live, where have you come from? For me!-- I was dying every day and you were killing my boys and you did it for me? What the hell do you think I was thinking of, the Goddamn business? Is that as far as your mind can see, the business? What is that , the world-- the business? What the hell do you mean, you did it for me? Don't you have a country? Don't you live in the world? What the hell are you? You're not even an animal, no animal kills his own, what are you?
~ Arthur Miller
I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. My whole bloody life, time after time after time.
~ Arthur Miller
Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him!
~ Arthur Miller
What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants...
~ Arthur Miller
He plough on Sunday, Sir. Plough on Sunday?!
~ Arthur Miller
Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men.
~ Arthur Miller
To admit what you see endangers principles.
~ Arthur Miller
JIM, gets up: Chris would never know how to live with a thing like that. It takes a certain talent . . . for lying. You have it, and I do. But not him.
~ Arthur Miller
Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls. - On Religion
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
In savage countries they eat one another, in civilized they deceive one another; and that is what people call the way of the world!
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles---for then he is off his guard.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer