Quotes About Ethics

The worst mistake which was ever made in this world was the separation of political science from ethics. —PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

It seemed to him that he had been vicious only because he had somehow forgotten how good it is to be virtuous.

You are not to be guarded in your actions either by what has been or what will be, but only by what it is your own duty to do.

the one unmistakable, incontestable manifestation of the Divinity is the law of right and wrong, which has come into the world by revelation, and which I feel in myself,

Temia como que manchar naquele meio impuro, vicioso, a imagem cândida que tinha na mente.

A espécie mais elevada dos animais, a espécie humana, devia, para se manter na luta contra os outros animais, assemelhar-se em tudo a um enxame de abelhas; não se multiplicar até ao infinito. Devia, como as abelhas, criar assexuados, isto é, caminhar para a continência e não para o sensualismo para o qual está organizada a vida moderna.

She did worse than break the law, she broke the rules

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

A country cannot live in disorder, incompetence, irresponsibility, uncertainty, and corruption.

Mentir ha llegado a ser una forma de espíritu. El honor ha perdido todo sentido, el honor del juramento, el honor a servir, el honor de morir. Se ríen de quienes se aferran todavía a esos viejos ritos. La virtud ha perdido su dulce canto de fuente. Las sonrisas no son ya los sentimientos del corazón, sino suspiros, estafas o rictus. Las almas se asfixian, el aire es pesado, cargado de todos los renunciamientos espirituales

Son muchos los hombres viles, pero junto a ellos, junto a esos cuya bajeza es una blasfemia de vida, existen otros: todos aquellos, los que vemos y los que no vemos, que no son así y que, por no serlo, salvan al mundo y al honor de vivir

Innocence is no excuse in the eyes of the Law.

No nation, no matter how powerful and great and whatever be its form of government, can long withstand the stranglehold of moral deterioration in its people.

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness.

There are no illegitimate children — only illegitimate parents.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

Only the little people pay taxes.