Quotes About Ethics

There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

In his case, what had been hardness became cruelty, while a tendency to bluff became plain dishonesty. He often lied without hesitation and assumed that others lied to him.

He was asked by his interrogator what his feelings were at the time, and he gave a memorable answer that gives insight into a phenomenon in the Third Reich that has seemed so elusive of human understanding. I had no feelings in carrying out these things because I had received an order to kill the eighty inmates in the way I already told you.

it has been decided that the Fuehrer's Mein Kampf is the greatest of all documents. It… not only contains the greatest but it embodies the purest and truest ethics for the present and future life of our nation.

Thus Spake Zarathustra

If Chamberlain was right and honorable in appeasing Hitler in September 1938 by sacrificing Czechoslovakia, was Stalin wrong and dishonorable in appeasing the Fuehrer a year later at the expense of Poland, which had shunned Soviet help anyway?

To Hegel the State is all, or almost all. Among other things, he says, it is the highest revelation of the "world spirit"; it is the "moral universe"; it is "the actuality of the ethical idea… ethical mind… knowing and thinking itself"; the State "has the supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the State… for the right of the world spirit is above all special privileges…

He, who was so monumentally intolerant by his very nature, was strangely tolerant of one human condition—a man's morals.

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Believe me, there's nothing so terrible that someone won't support it.

What you offering? You scratch my soul, you know, I'll scratch yours. Tit for tat, darling. So what you been in? We all like a bit of theology here, love, no need to be shy." He licked his lips. "Give us an afterlife, go on.

If one death'll stop ten, ain't it better? If two deaths'll save a city?

Do not consider any vice as trivial, and therefore practise it; do not consider any virtue as unimportant, and therefore neglect it.

The man of first rate excellence is virtuous in spite of instruction; he of the middle class is so after instruction; the lowest order of men are vicious in spite of instruction.

The man of worth is really great without being proud; the mean man is proud without being really great.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden.

Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Practice no vice because it's trivial... Neglect no virtue because it's so.

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.