Quotes About Ethics

I ceased some time ago to believe in goodness.

I wonder if it's harder to be good in this age?

She must not be tempted by truthfulness, she must play the game out to the end.

How absolute the knave is!

One can't stop people from killing themselves if they're determined to. It may even be wrong to do so.

But thinking about wickedness usually just comforts.

Do you really believe that? That it's wicked to love destiny? Yes. What happens is usually what oughtn't to happen. Why love it?

Moral concepts do not move about within a hard world set up by science and logic. They set up, for different purposes, a different world.

The false god punishes, the true god slays.)

Moreover, and of course, she loved him; but in Sefton's stern code her love had always been chained up, and howled fruitlessly, as indeed it did now.

If Buddhists think evil is unreal they must be mad! Thinking evil is unreal is holding hands with evil under the table!

To be good is just never to lose it. How does evil begin in a life? How can it begin? Yet we were there once.

There may be no God, but there's decency and - and there's truth and trying to stay there, I mean to stay in it, in its sort of light, and trying to do a good thing and to hold onto what you know to be a good thing even if it seems stupid when you come to do it.

There's nothing wrong with pornography. It's good for you. If politicians stuck to pornography the world wouldn't be in such a mess.

You say we don't know the consequences of actions. But we don't know the consequences of inactions either, and inactions are actions.

I tasted injustice and the special horror of seeing its perpetrators flourish. How frequent and how bitter is this aspect of human wretchedness. The wicked prosper in front of our eyes and go on and on and on prospering. What a blessing it must have been once to be able to believe in hell. A great and deep human consolation was lost to us when that ancient and respectable belief faded from our minds.

Guilt feelings so often arise from accusations rather than from crimes.

politicians aren't concerned with justice being done, they're concerned with justice seeming to be done as a result of their keen-eyed vigilance.

I've almost finished The Republic. I find Plato at times a vile casuist, and almost always a reactionary. But he does write exquisite Greek.

People who act on their moral courage will always encounter disapproval. To have moral courage is to challenge conformity within our own tribes--be they religious, cultural, ideological or professional--and to do so for a more universal good.

Same rules apply.

She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy.

Rents bir keresinde, polisin ve yarg?çlar?n görev duygusunu tetiklemek için esmer bi tenden daha iyisi yoktur, demiÅŸti; çok doÄŸru.

He really is a cunt ay the first order. Nae about that. The big problem is, he's a mate na aw. Whit kin ye dae?