Quotes About Ethics

Remember: warm heart, cold mind. The seducer's code.

Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behaviour. It's pure biology.

All holy books are, above all, great stories whose plots deal with the basic aspects of human nature, setting them within a particular moral context and a particular framework of supernatural dogma. -Andreas Corelli

Sono poche le ragioni per dire la verità, mentre quelle per mentire sono infinite

A justiça é uma extravagância da perspectiva, e não um valor universal.

Miquel Moliner estaba poseído por esa laboriosidad culpable, y aunque respetaba y hasta envidiaba la ociosidad de los demás, huía de ella como de la peste. Lejos de presumir de su ética de trabajo, bromeaba sobre su compulsión productiva y la describía como una forma menor de cobardía. -Mientras se trabaja, uno no le mira a la vida a los ojos

Telling the truth should be kept as a last resort, Daniel, even more so to a nun

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

Miért nevezik inszomniának, mikor valójában a lelkiismeretrÅ'l beszelnek?

Ha oído decir alguna vez aquello tan socorrido de que en el amor y en la guerra está todo permitido, Daniel? -Alvina fez. Normalmente en vocal de Los que están más pot la guerra que poor el amor. -Así es, porque en el fondo es mentira podrida.

Los codiciosos nunca saben cuándo ha llegado el momento de dejar de abusar de su posición y fuerzan las cosas hasta sacarlas de quicio. Por eso, tarde o temprano, caen

Why call it insomnia, when what they mean is conscience?

Lo que hace falta en el mundo es más gente mala de verdad y menos cazurros limítrofes.

Nekad nepie?emiet apbalvojumus, ja tie nav uzdruk?ti uz bankas ?ekiem. Jo cit?di tie n?k par labu tikai pieš??r?jiem.

man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our 'ethical behavior,'" he argued. "It's pure biology.

Never accept medals unless they come printed on the back of a cheque.

John Kay of The Sun said to me, "Anything you can give us about Myra, I will guarantee you a front-page spread." She was as lucrative to them as Princess Diana.

She makes a silent vow to be a vegetarian from now on even if she has to starve to do it. Better that than even the remote possibility of eating one's friends and fellow sufferers.

It's the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones.

We want to hear, we long to hear, "I screwed up. I will do my best to ensure that it will not happen again." Most of us are not impressed when a leader offers the form of Kennedy's admission without its essence, as in Ronald Reagan's response to the Iran-Contra scandal, which may be summarized as "I didn't do anything wrong myself, but it happened on my watch, so, well, I guess I'll take responsibility."3 That doesn't cut it.

Priam and Achilles meet in the very twilight of their lives. Their extinction is certain and there will be no reward for behaving well, and yet, in the face of implacable fate and an indifferent universe, they mutually assert the highest ideals of their humanity.

You mean I can't chain him to the bumper of my truck and drag him through the city?

But I have not openly admitted that breaking my word or lying are acts of darkness.

Jayden could make her squirm for a little while, but that wouldn't be right. Gramps always told her to do what she knew was right and not worry about those folks around her who were doing wrong.