Quotes About Ethics

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

The final mark of a saint is not perfection, but lived virtue. It is the striving for holiness throughout the arc of a life that makes a saint.

a compaixão é frequentemente a pior das conselheiras políticas

So then, the striking thing about the laws of the Old Testament is not that some of them are beneath the modern conscience but that they are above the other law codes of the ancient world. As

"A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy," he said dryly.

As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

God doesn't care about what you eat or what you drink. He doesn't care about how often you pray to him or what words you use or where you go to do that....He only cares about how you behave towards one another.

maybe we don't need a heavenly bribe or the fear of hell and damnation to make us behave decently. Maybe it would be healthier if people started believing in themselves instead.

The most serious dangers emanate from those for whom the moral high ground is a platform for self-advancement, many of whom have never borne, or have been willing to bear, the responsibilities that weigh on the daily life of practitioners.

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?

Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.

Omul, atunci can e desavarsit, este cel mai bun dintre fiinte, dar atunci cand e lipsit de lege si dreptate, devine cel mai rau dintre toate, caci nedreptatea care dispune de arme este cea mai primejdioasa; iar omul este inzestrat la nastere cu arme menite a fi fosite cu inteligenta si virtute, dar pe care el le poate pune in slujba scopurilor celor mai rele.

If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.

I'm a bit of a dude. I like meat. But I am buying it more responsibly, where it's more sourced responsibly.

On what possible basis would I want to stop someone from buying BHS if I had tried to save it?

You want me to become a leaker? I'm not. I do not leak any news from the Cabinet sessions.

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

Penn Cage I think of as annoyingly righteous sometimes. He's almost too good.

There is nothing wrong with Radha Ravi calling women to his office. There's nothing wrong if a man calls women to his office. There is something wrong if a man calls men to his office.

I try to remain calm and treat my club with respect.

I am accepting my share of responsibility in what happens with Cambridge Analytica. I think that Facebook should also accept some share of responsibility as to what happened.

I don't know how effective it is or isn't, but there's something weird about putting cameras on human beings, and talking on camera.