Quotes About Ethics

Addressing the non-tenure-track instructors was a ticklish and morally complicated task—akin to a ship's captain going belowdecks to rouse the galley slaves at their posts.

From his loftiest pulpit the modern clerc assures man that he is great in proportion as he is practical.

The desire to abase the values of knowledge before the values of action...

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

The Treachery of the Intellectuals.

Those who lead men to the conquest of material things have no need of justice and charity.

But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

On peut être criminel sans sans avoir jamais manié une arme ou une pince-monseigneur.

En konkreto, Abila Sanhes fue ombre de pensamiento y aksión, de moral i de kultura. Esto son las partidas de su aber.

Tus nociones sobre la verdad y la bondad son puramente históricas, se fundan en una ética heredada. Pero la historia y a ética me parecen a mí altamente dudosas.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

It is a sign of regression when pleasure begins to be considered as the highest principle

Knighthood, instead, appeared as a superterritorial and supernational community in which its members, who were consecrated to military priesthood, no longer had a homeland and thus were bound by faithfulness not to people but, on the one hand, to an ethics that had as its fundamental values honor, truth, courage, and loyalty and, on the other hand, to a spiritual authority of a universal type, which was essentially that of the Empire.

Dont twist the story Better tell the truth Sometimes white lies End up greediness

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

What is the moral meaning of our own gods?

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.

Was I really reading my roommate's journal behind his back? Of course I was.

one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.