Quotes About Ethics

Ninguna sociedad puede existir, si no impera en algún grado el respeto a las leyes; pero es el caso que lo que da más seguridad para que sean respetadas las leyes, es que sean respetables. Cuando la ley y la moral se encuentran en contradicción, el ciudadano se encuentra en la cruel disyuntiva de perder la noción de lo moral o de perder el respeto a la ley, dos desgracias tan grandes una como la otra y entre las cuales es difícil elegir.

The true and equitable law of humanity is the free exchange of service for service. Spoliation consists in destroying by force or by trickery the freedom of exchange, in order to receive a service without rendering one. Forcible spoliation is exercised thus: Wait till a man has produced something; then take it away from him by violence. It is solemnly condemned in the Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not steal.

In fact, it is not justice which has an existence of its own, it is injustice. The one results from the absence of the other.

It is worth our while to pay a little attention to the extent of genius required by these legislators, that we may see how, by confounding all the virtues, they showed their wisdom to the world.

When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

You shall not succeed, I predict, so long as legal plunder continues to be the main business of the legislature. It is illogical -- in fact, absurd -- to assume otherwise.

2. As soon as you become too interested in worldly pleasure and ease, your conscience objects. You are your own worst enemy when you act against your conscience. The wrong which you do becomes worse when you try to excuse yourself or justify your actions. 3.

Une seule question me taraude sans cesse et résume toute mon existence: Qu'y a-t-il de pire: faire l'amour sans aimer, ou aimer sans faire l'amour?

Las personas movidas por las mejores intenciones siempre son las que acaban convirtiéndose en monstruos.

Aufruf an alle Industrielle und Politiker in aller Welt: Bitte hinterlassen Sie die Welt so, wie Sie sie beim Betreten vorgefunden haben.

Sabéis cuál es la diferencia entre los ricos y los pobres? Los pobres venden droga para comprarse unas Nike mientras que los ricos venden Nikes para comprar droga.

The sin against nature [is] - compulsory celibacy

François Goyot de Pitavals

Lesson no. 12: It's harder to be happy in a country run by bad people.

Because there are times when getting up to mischief isn't mischievous and other times when it is and you shouldn't do it.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

I am a good lawyer," said Renard. "Often I've made right out of wrong and wrong out of right, as it suited me." —ROMAN DE RENARD

I find it hard to believe that a lady like...' Pertellis hesitated, and coughed. 'There is something elevated in the female spirit that will always hold a woman back from the coldest and most vicious forms of villainy.' 'No, there isn't,' Miss Kitely said kindly but firmly, as she set a dish in his hand. 'Drink your chocolate, Mr Pertellis.

I'm glad we're free, even if we do stupid things with the freedom sometimes. Maybe sometimes there isn't a right thing to do. Maybe there's just lots of wrong answers, and you have to pick one you can bear – something that doesn't break who you are.

If nothing is sacred, then we are all left to crawl through the mud, and there is no meaning to anything.

It would probably be better to have a ruler who didn't sell people or bend his own laws. For the moment, however, this man was perhaps just the best of the wrong answers available.

In the interests of Truth, I would lie.