Quotes About Ethics

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

Die Tiere empfinden wie der Mensch Freude und Schmerz, Glück und Unglück.

The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals

En realidad, dudo de que la compasión sea una cualidad natural o innata.

And in proportion as riches and rich men are honored in the state, virtue and the virtuous are dishonored. And what is honored is cultivated, and that which has no honor is neglected.

Take a king or a president or anybody. Put a heavy sack of gold in one hand and a feather-light declaration about freedom in the other. And then an outlaw sticks a pistol in his face and says give me one or the other. Every time—every ten out of ten —he'll hug the sack and throw away the ideals. Because the sack's what's behind the ideals, like the foundation under a building.

Humans are inhuman, whether it's by direct action or by acceptance of a horrible action as normal.

Their moral position in converting from slave holders to champions of freedom was about like a house cat on a cold night scooting through a closing door just before the latch clacks shut. But sometimes timing is all. A brief moment of history, less than a deep breath, becomes the difference between inside and outside.

I've had relatives so crooked they nearly went to prison, but if you have money you never actually go. They make you think it for a while, and that's your punishment.

lot. In addition to the behaviour that caused the crisis, major US and European banks have been caught assisting corporate fraud by Enron and others, laundering money for drug cartels and the Iranian military, aiding tax evasion, hiding the assets of corrupt dictators, colluding in order to fix prices, and committing many forms of financial fraud. The evidence is now overwhelming that over the last thirty years, the US financial sector has become a rogue industry.

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

Christ comes indeed, and opens up his own way, no matter whether man is ready beforehand or not. No-one can hinder his coming, but we can resist his coming in mercy. " —ETHICS

There is no place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the inner life. Any attempt to escape from the world must sooner or later be paid for with a sinful surrender to the world." —ETHICS

One is distressed by the failure of reasonable people to perceive either the depths of evil or the depths of the holy." —ETHICS

Compromise occurs when our behavior fails to reflect our priorities. In what ways have you compromised, and how can you get back on track?

We shouldn't even be here, I think distantly as I raise my weapon and take aim, we're management, not heroes.

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!" "It's

the seeds of evil usually germinated in the footprints of people who knew how everybody else ought to behave and felt the need to tell them so.

Nobody taught me how to say no when a beautiful naked woman begs me to take my clothes off.

Any sufficiently advanced lingerie is indistinguishable from a lethal weapon.

I don't have a license to kill, but I don't have orders not to kill in the course of my duties, either. Which realization I find extremely disturbing;

You can collar criminals until the cows come home, and there'll still be a never-ending supply of greedy fuckwits and chancers.

a man cannot make himself believe a lie just because it profits him. Men

So Ah'm no evil, Ah'm just plain bad.