Quotes About Ethics

You see how good and evil are twisted together? Like a golden dragon bracelet snaking brightly about a person's arm.

What is within is more important than what is without.

Surely, just because SOME Magic is bad, it doesn't mean that ALL Magic is bad?

ANYONE WHO HAS SKIPPED TO THIS EPILOGUE BEFORE READING THE REST OF THE STORY IS A BIG CHEAT AND SHOULD GO RIGHT BACK TO CHAPTER 1 OR I WILL GET REALLY QUITE UPSET.

Whatever you are, be a good one. -Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife)

Perhaps: What is it about Trump's business record that you find most persuasive?

No pervs allowed in the Oval Office," Donald said. "I didn't make the rules.

That Mark's a pediatric cardiologist mostly offsets—to me, if not to everyone—how he's also kind of an asshole.

Yet even so, the margin between staying and leaving was so thin. Really, it could have gone either way. Sometimes I think that my years of diligent schoolwork and political idealism had given me the erroneous notion that if one choice, one plan, was hard and the other was easy, doing the hard thing was inherently better—worthier, more upstanding.

the erroneous notion that if one choice, one plan, was hard and the other was easy, doing the hard thing was inherently better—worthier, more upstanding.

Oggi si soffre e si fa soffrire, si uccide e si muore, si compiono cose meravigliose e cose orrende, non già per salvare la nostra anima, ma per salvare la propria pelle.

It's not about right belief; it's about right practice.

Evil would be done, that was the nature of the world; that was bearable if good could also be done.

No creo que le haga más daño a una mujer por dormir con ella que por bailar con ella... o incluso por hablarle del tiempo. No es más que un intercambio de sensaciones en lugar de ideas, conque ¿por qué no?

they want to do the right thing. Just make sure they know you want them to do the right thing.

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

It seems to me a wrong and bitter thing to do, to bring a child into this world.

But,' Gerald insisted, 'you don't allow one man to take away his neighbour's living, so why should you allow one nation to take away the living from another nation?' There was a long slow murmur from Hermione before she broke into speech, saying with a laconic indifference: 'It is not always a question of possessions, is it?

?nsanl?k, hele elinde bir yetkisi olan insanl?k... Ancak bir ?ey gelirdi elinden o insanl???n!

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying. But what is bullying? It is a desire to superimpose my own will upon another person. Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them. I embrace for example an ideal, and[59] I seek to enact this ideal in the person of another. This is ideal bullying.

was in the grip of his moral, mental being.

There is a simple way to become a buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and kind to juniors, not excluding or desiring anything, with no thoughts or worries, you will be called a buddha. Seek nothing else.