Quotes About Ethics

Men are cruel,' I said, 'and the gods made us like themselves

If the leader is a good man he will be liked and if he's not, he won't, and if he is a good man and a bad leader then he is better off dead.

Fighting fair! Whoever heard of anything so daft? Fight fair and you lose.

And when you speak with him," I said, "tell him to stop hitting his wife." Erkenwald jerked as though I had just struck him in the face. "It is his Christian duty," he said stiffly, "to discipline his wife, and it is her duty to submit. Did you not listen to what I preached?

I killed that ship's crew to save myself having to kill hundreds of other Danes." "The Lord Jesus would have wanted you to show mercy," she said, her eyes wide. She is an idiot.

I could tell you tales of priestly behavior that would make you shudder.

If a man breaks an oath he has no honour

A man without honor has no reputation

Being alive is bad in a Christian! We say people are saints if they're good, but how few of us become saints? We're all bad! Some of us just try to be good.

The law. we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch

Poor as an honest lawyer.

We each have to choose something but it is another question how and why we presume to choose for others.

Buddhists have always claimed the moral high ground and attempted, with more or less success, to maintain an exigent ideal of purity. Any spiritual practice is fated to confront the obstinate realities of human existence, however.

will you please explain how you can cry for a dead dog yet belong to a society of fanatics that urges death on human beings who happen to be Jews? Explain to me the logic of it.

Era nato buono, il che se ti capita è una virtù.

Quando un uomo è onesto dorme tranquillo. E questo vale più di cinque centesimi rubati.

Moralitatea are o mie de surse È™i nesfârÈ™ite mijloace de expresie

Tanner: My dear Tavy, your pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character in leads you to think about your own confounded principles when you should be thinking about other people's necessities.

Any man over forty is a scoundrel.

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions--I say the most licentious of human institutions: that is the secret of its popularity.And a woman seeking a husband is the most unscrupulous of all the beasts of prey. The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

I wanted to pose myself both tasks - understanding and condemnation. But it was impossible to do both

Did my moral upbrining somehow turn against itself? If looking at someone with desire was as bad as satisfying the desire, if having an active fantasy was as bad as the act you were fantasizing- then why not the satisfaction and the act itself? As the days went on, I discovered that I couldn't stop thinking sinful thoughts. In which case I also wanted the sin itself.

Philosophy has forgotten about children

Imagine someone is racing intentionally towards his own destruction and you can save him - do you go ahead and save him?