Quotes About Ethics

Ka, you see, was one of those moralists who believe that the greatest happiness comes from never doing anything for the sake of personal happiness.

Nos interesa el límite peligroso de las cosas. El ladrón honesto, el asesino sensible, el ateo supersticioso. ROBERT BROWNING, Apología del obispo Blougram La política en una obra literaria es un tiro de pistola en medio de un concierto, algo grosero pero imposible de ignorar. Estamos a punto de hablar de asuntos muy feos. STENDHAL, La cartuja de Parma

Ali u zemlji kao što je naša, zemlji u kojoj je ljudski život ovoliko jeftin, nepromišljeno je upropastiti se zbog onoga u što vjeruješ. Velika na?ela i vjerovanja nisu za nas: oni su za ljude iz bogatih zemalja.

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Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.

To have done no man a wrong… to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude—this is to be a man

The educated man ought to be able to do something better, something higher than merely to put money in his purse. Money-making can not compare with man-making.

No man ever climbed to success on another's back.

Real happiness cannot be bribed by anything sordid or low.

In a word trust that man in nothing. Who has not a conscience in everything. — Laurence Sterne

An old sculptor said of his carvings, whose backs were to be out of all possible inspection, "But the gods will see. Every

The time will come when human drones will be ostracized from society as nobodies, as thieves of honest men's efforts, thieves of the results of honest men's labor. The coming civilization will not tolerate these thieves of society, these lazy vagabonds who do nothing but steal the products of their labor and demoralize society by their vicious example.

There is something inside of a man which protests against doing that which tends to injure another, that which does not square with his God nature, with the best thing in him; that which is not working in response to his highest aspiration.

No human being can possibly injure another without injuring himself more. He cannot do wrong without paying for it in corresponding suffering.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters. Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

Sometimes, what's right is not peaceful or passive. What matters is that you do not hide from the consequences. You bear what must be borne.