Quotes About Ethics

Evil people can do good. Good people can do evil. Why does this happen sometimes? Because it's Tuesday.

Crime was never more egregious than when it victimized a lowly politician.

None of it mattered because justice was blind except when it came to the color green.

But be warned! The book is an inconceivably impressive sharpening of the commandment 'Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain'.

I regard anticommunism as a matter of principle an evil even greater than communism itself.

Morální a metafyzickou vinu nesou za rodi?e jejich dÄ›ti a dÄ›ti dÄ›tí; taková vina se nesmaže, ale m?že být jen pÃ…â"¢iznána a - pokud to je možné - od?inÄ›na.

Právo máme ve skute?nosti jen tehdy, máme-li zárove? moc za nÄ› bojovat. Tam, kde je naprostá bezmocnost, je pouze možnost na ideální právo duchovnÄ› apelovat.

Ale dnes svatozáÃ…â"¢ kolem hlav stát? zmizela. Jsou to lidé a jsou odpovÄ›dni za své ?iny. Od té doby, co evropské národy za?aly stavÄ›t své monarchy pÃ…â"¢ed soud a stínat jim hlavy, je úkolem národ? kontrolovat své v?dce. Státní akty jsou zárove? osobní akty. Odpovídají za nÄ› lidé jako jednotlivci.

Je tÃ…â"¢eba rozliÅ¡ovat dvojí: vÄ›domí viny a uznání nÄ›jaké instituce na svÄ›tÄ› jako soudce.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her

has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest

If the State is to have reality as the ethical, self-conscious realization of spirit, it must be distinguished from the form of authority and faith. But this distinction arises only in so far as the ecclesiastical side is in itself divided into several churches. Then only is the State seen to be superior to them, and wins and brings into existence the universality of thought as the principle of its form.

surgeons had been able to keep a heart beating even though it wasn't connected to a body. I thought this was a waste of heartbeats and energy. It's like going out and leaving the TV on. We're constantly being told to save energy, and yet surgeons are leaving hearts pumping.

Kloe i Baltasar su imali svoj sopstsveni kodeks casti: likvidirali su samo sljam i cistili svijet od ubica, gmazova, licemerja, fanatika, smrknutih dogmata i svakojakih kretena koji jos vise upropascuavaju svijet u ime zastave, bogova, jezika, rasa ili bilo kakvog drugog djubreta kojim mogu da prekriju svoju pohlepu i svoju bedu. Za mene su oni bili krivovjerni heroji, kao sto svi stvari heroji i jesu.

If some act is wrong it is simply wrong, no matter who tells you to do it or for what grand motive. It seemed to me that a true patriot and decent human being rejects doing wrong and puts the ideals on which the country is founded ahead of the directives of government bureaucrats. If the government is off the rails, you don't keep on riding the train to destruction—you certainly don't push it there on your own; you start hauling the other way as hard as you can.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win is for enough good women to do nothing.

I think there is something wrong with the human race. It undermines everything one would like to believe in, don't you think?

What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?" Sylvie said.

Personally, I don't think it right to make up things about real people—although I suppose there's an argument for saying that once you're dead you're not real any more. But then we have to define what we mean by real and none of us wants to go down that tortuous path because we all know where it leads (madness or a first-class honours, or both).

He could hardly beat them up, they were still – technically – children and he preferred to restrict his acts of violence to people old enough to fight for their country.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.