Quotes About Ethics

Pues quien comete el mal es más desdichado en su alma que aquel que lo soporta. Lo compadezco, pero no lo odio.

Ningún orden moral puede obtenerse por la fuerza, pues toda violencia engendra inevitablemente violencia.

goodness and truth have never yet succeeded in curing humanity or even a single human being.

on peut tout fuir, sauf sa conscience.

Robespierre) SaÄŸduyu ve erdeme a??r? baÄŸnazl?kla baÄŸl? bir kiÅŸi olarak, kar??s?ndakilerin anlaÅŸmak ve boyun eÄŸmek için yapt?klar? bütün baÅŸvurmalar? geri çevirir. Hatta politikan?n anlaÅŸmaya zorlad??? durumlarda bile onun sert kinciliÄŸi ve kat? gururu buna engel olur.

to see passion in every crime, and use that passion to excuse it.

Porque el que no actúa también hace algo que lo convierte en culpable en la Tierra...

I had sworn to myself – an oath which I still kept in 1940 – never to write a single word that affirmed war or disparaged another nation.

Only he knows that no task on earth is more burdensome and difficult than to maintain one's intellectual and moral independence and preserve it unsullied through a mass cataclysm.

And although our time gave me the opportunity like anyone else, I never got my hands on the property or assets of another Frenchman. Only alone have I lived, whether in war or peace, and I have never demanded anything of someone without remunerating him justly. I have my law and my own courts of justice, and they pass sentence on me.

Es cien veces mejor sufrir por una convicción que matar por ella.

como advertencia para otras generaciones, redacta en esos días de soledad su última obra, al mismo tiempo la más grande, De officiis, la enseñanza de las obligaciones que el hombre independiente, el hombre moral, ha de cumplir frente a sí mismo y frente al Estado.

Tüm dünya yerle bir olurken, insan?n kendisi için çal??mas? bir suç.

El que quiere y cree que puede evitar hacer el mal con sabiduría cae en la tentación y en la culpa

Tüm dünya yerle bir olurken, insan?n kendisi için çal??mas? bir suç. - Sayfa 12

It's not right because it just isn't. You can't go round making up evidence just because you're convinced someone is guilty. You can't be judge and jury; that's not your job. (Liz)

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

One should take good care never to treat one's own moral code as something universally valid

The oil business, as Erickson understood it, was and had always been amoral.

Such, in all modesty, is the reward of virtue.

factory had at its disposal 30,000 Jews, political prisoners

Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance?

We cannot expect the men we appoint to govern us, to be better than ourselves.

Companies were offering bribes to expand faster internationally, investors were scamming their clients, oil companies were funding warlords, manufacturers were skirting environmental regulations, all to make ever more money, yet no one from those groups were seemingly untouchable, protected by power and status and connections, and some were not.