Quotes About Ethics

Sin as little as possible - that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All earthly tings are subject to sin. Sin is like gravity.

To cling to his paradise and become a devil or become a saint by going back to hell?

The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream of the angel. All which is terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...

Ystäväni, painakaa mieleenne, ettei ole olemassa enempää huonoja kasveja kuin huonoja ihmisiäkään. On vain huonoja viljelijöitä. (Jean Valjean)

The nourishment of the people is a good object; to massacre them is a bad means.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of

Les recomiendo la moderación en sus deseos. (Tholomyes)

with the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means.

Cik iesp?jams maz gr?kot - ir cilv?ka likums. Piln?ga bezgr?c?ba ir e??e?a sapnis.Viss, kas ir no š?s zemes, ir pak?auts gr?kam. Gr?kam ir pievilkšanas sp?ks.

The poacher lives in the forest, the smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.

the purifying action of Conscience upsets the legal order.

La honradez de un gran corazón, condensada en justicia y en verdad, fulmina.

Let us live, by all means. But let us try to ensure that death is a progress. Let us aspire to worlds that are less dark. Let us follow the conscience that leads us there.

Cometer la menor cantidad de pecados posibles es la ley del hombre. No cometer ninguno es el sueño del ángel.

As cidades produzem homens ferozes, porque produzem homens corruptos.

In a calm and even situation, Thenardier possessed all that is required to make—we will not say to be—what people have agreed to call an honest trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in whom there was some taint of the monster.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Pecar o menos possível é a lei dos homens. Não pecar nunca é sonho de anjos. Tudo o que é da terra está sujeito ao pecado. O pecado é uma gravitação.

Ma non basta essere cattivi, per prosperare.

Il y a des gens qui respectent les règles de l'honneur comme on observe les étoiles, de très loin.

Jamais entre os animais a criatura nascida para ser pomba converte-se em abutre. Isso só se vê entre os homens.

After a pause he added: My friends remember this:There is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man.There are only bad cultivators.