Quotes About Ethics

all severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle. An important reminder for Upholders

In an interview in the Paris Review, novelist and Rebel John Gardner made an observation that I've never forgotten: "Every time you break the law you pay, and every time you obey the law you pay.

We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers.

The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.

I believe in Supreme Being, a Creator, whoever he may be, it's of no importance to me, who put us here on earth to do our duty as citizens and fathers; but I don't need to go to church and kiss silver platters and dig into my pocket to fatten up a lot of humbugs who eat better than you or I do! Because he can be worshiped just as well in a wood, a field, or even just gazing at the ethereal vault, like the ancients.

So when will this society, bastardised by every debauchery of mind, body and soul, finally come to an end?

Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.

Ä°nsan, ÅŸeytan?n yan?na yaklaÅŸmas?na izin verdi mi, art?k iradesi üzerindeki denetimini kaybeder. Gözleri kapan?r; iyiyle kötüyü, doÄŸruyla yanl??? ay?ramaz olur.

notre siècle est un siècle de putains, et ce qu'il y a de moins prostitué, jusqu'à présent, ce sont les prostituées.

Anyone who lacks respect for religion comes to a bad end.

What is beautiful is moral, that is all, and nothing more

Anyone without religions will always go wrong in the end!

Bourse (la). Thermomètre de l'opinion publique. Boursiers. Tous voleurs.

One must not touch idols; the gilt rubs off on one's hands.

But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor?

il ne faut chercher que la vérité, sans s'occuper de la morale enseignée, orthodoxe et officielle ; de la morale, cette prétendue loi naturelle, indéfiniment variable, facultative, cette chose dosée différemment pour chaque pays, appréciée de façon nouvelle par chaque expert, prêtre ou législateur, et sans cesse modifiée par tout le monde.

Mais, comme il éprouvait une peine infinie à découvrir des idées, il prit la spécialité des déclamations sur la décadence des moeurs sur l'abaissement des caractères, l'affaissement du patriotisme et l'anémie de l'honneur français. (Il avait trouvé le mot anémie dont il était fier.)

All parties accept that companies must act in the 'interest of their stockholders' whatever the cost in alienation or exploitation.

Loser-CEO: @GuyKawasaki, Art Of The Start kitab?n? ekibim için fotokopiyle çoÄŸaltt?m. Sence cimri miyim yoksa ÅŸerefsiz mi? @GuyKawasaki: .@Loser-CEO cimri bir ÅŸerefsizsin.

In some cases . . . the knife can turn savagely upon the person wielding it. . . . You use the knife carefully because you know it doesn't care who it cuts.

La gente confía en ti cuando estás informado, eres competente, piensas en grande y creas situaciones de valor seguro. En resumidas cuentas, cuando haces cosas buenas y las haces bien.

Asigna una etiqueta «Para resumir un argumento complejo en pocas palabras: no son los motivos perversos los que llevan a una conducta perversa, sino todo lo contrario: la conducta perversa, con el tiempo, genera motivaciones perversas.» Howard S. Becker

Tienen suerte los gobernantes de que los hombres no piensen.» Adolf Hitler

Accept that people aren't good or bad. Good people can do bad things, and bad people can do good things.