Quotes About Ethics

Possibly the greatest good requires the existence of a slave class.

The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings

In normal circumstances a lovely young woman alone would have thought of nothing else; the whole edifice of female government is based on that foundation stone; chastity is their jewel, their centrepiece, which they run mad to protect, and die when ravished of.

The good citizen when he opens his door in the evening must be banker, golfer, husband, father; not a nomad wandering the desert, a mystic staring at the sky, a debauchee in the slums of San Francisco, a soldier heading a revolution, a pariah howling with skepticism and solitude.

You can't drive a bayonet through a chap's body in cold blood, he remembered him saying. And you can't go in for an exam. without drinking, said Edward.

as if to be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

We have been taking into our mouths the bodies of dead birds.

El dinero dignifica lo que es frívolo si no está pagado.

The red setter who had been whining all night beside Flush on the floor was hauled off by a ruffian in a moleskin vest—to what fate? Was it better to be killed or to stay here? Which was worse—this life or that death?

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since 1956, but of no human beings.

Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.

Philosophy is the invention of the rich.

No you can't take a pistol and plug a girl you don't even know simply because she attracts you.

The lovely thing about humanity is that at times one may be unaware of doing right, but one is always aware of doing wrong.

if one were quite sincere with oneself, no conscience, and hence no consciousness, could be expected to subsist in a world where such things as Mira's death were possible.

under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.

The moral sense in mortals is the duty. We have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.

He started as a maker of Cartesian devils—imps of bottle glass bobbing up and down in methylate-filled tubes hawked during Catkin Week on the boulevards. He

Ngày nay, anh ph?i là má»™t nhà khoa h?c n?u mu?n gi?t ng??i.

Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither

El sentido moral de los mortales es el precio que debemos pagar por nuestro sentido mortal de la belleza.57

sham idealists, [are] people who can somehow combine what they call the good and the beautiful with material things, such as a bureaucratic career, etc.

El sentido moral de los mortales es el precio que debemos pagar por nuestro sentido mortal de la belleza.