Quotes About Ethics

It is by their own actions, good or bad, that men are happy or miserable. The virtues or vices of others will not affect us in the least.

Demikianlah terjadinya kejahatan. Satu dosa akan melahirkan dosa lain ydan demikian pula kejahatan membenamkan jalan kebenaran. Dosa melahirkan balas dendam.

knowledge, that is merely so much undigested information crammed into the mind, cannot instil virtue.

Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

Murder is unseemly. Making certain a killer doesn't get away with what he has done is an obligation we the living owe to the dead—no matter how unsavory we consider them to be.

I always say there's nothing wrong with a bit of vice as long as it's not taken to the extreme. Give me someone with a touch of vice over someone with an excess of sanctimonious hypocrisy any day.

Would I be commenting on Amy Fisher? Was that the sort of subject that someone who hoped to become poet laureate should discuss? Would those British laureates who had traditionally written about royal birthdays and royal jubilees have dealt with such goings on?

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

All roads from Rousseau lead to Sade.

We are plunged once again into an ethical chaos where intolerance masquerades as tolerance and where individual liberty is crushed by the tyranny of the group.

Every road from Rousseau leads to Sade.

Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

Tragic woman is less moral than man. Her will-to-power is naked. Her actions are under a chthonian cloud.

For every gross male harasser, there are ten female sycophants who shamelessly use their sexual attractions to get ahead.

If you are going to do wrong, at least make sure you don't get fat from it.

I have this theory: You can get away with anything as long as you act like you're not doing anything wrong.

We hate guys who date more than one woman at a time. I've always believed that what's unacceptable in one sex should, by definition, be unacceptable in the other.

about Jimmy Carter

Woodward said that he had told no one the name of Deep Throat. Mrs. Graham paused. 'Tell me,' she said. Woodward froze. He said he would give her the name if she wanted. He was praying she wouldn't press it. Mrs. Graham laughed, touched his arm and said she was only kidding, she didn't really want to carry that burden around with her. Woodward took a bite of his eggs, which were cold. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

Sloan wondered if newspapers weren't a little hypocritical, demanding one standard for others and another for themselves; he doubted that reporters had any idea of the anguish they could inflict with only one sentence

The deceased was a well-known scumbucket and they don't usually have the decency to kill themselves. Usually someone else does the honor.

You won't change the whole world, but you'll change somebody's world - and for the better. And, just as inevitably, some of you won't. You'll park your principles in the long-term lot and spend your future taking advantage of people.

while honesty is a good thing, lying is occasionally necessary in order to protect people.

In other words, we saved an animal from extinction just so we could start killing it again. How messed up is that?