Quotes About Ethics

No hay derecho a matar al enemigo sino en el caso de no poderle hacer esclavo. Luego, el derecho de hacerle esclavo no viene del derecho de matarle. Por lo tanto, es un cambio inicuo hacerle comprar a costa de su libertad una vida sobre la cual nadie tiene derecho.

sociedad en que el deber de una eterna fidelidad sólo sirve para originar adulterios y donde las mismas leyes del honor y la continencia extienden necesariamente la corrupción y multiplican los abortos.

Güç maddesel bir ÅŸeydir. Bundan nas?l bir ahlak ç?kabilir, bilmem. Güce boyun eÄŸmek, bir istem iÅŸi deÄŸil, bir zorunluluk; olsa olsa bir sak?nt? iÅŸidir. Ne bak?mdan ödev olabilir bu?

Bien sea de hombre a hombre, bien sea de hombre a pueblo, siempre será igualmente descabellado este discurso: Celebro contigo un contrato en el cual todos los deberes están a tu cargo y todos los beneficios están a mi favor; contrato, que respetaré mientras se me dé la gana y que tú observarás mientras se me dé la gana.

Ne détruisons point les instruments du bonheur parce que les méchants s'en servent quelquefois à nuire.

Sería preciso que mi ser moral fuera aniquilada para que la justicia se me volviera indiferente. El espectáculo de la injusticia y de la maldad hace aún que me hierva la sangre de cólera; los actos de virtud en que no veo ni fanfarronería ni ostentación me hacen siempre vibrar de alegría y todavía me arrancan dulces lágrimas.

Herhangi bir yarardan s?yr?lm?? gerçek, bir hak oluÅŸturmaz ve bu nedenle, onu saklayan yalan söylemiÅŸ olmaz.

Konunun içyüzünü, bildiklerimi yaln?zca adalet kurallar?na göre kullancak denli biliyor muyum? Dahas? var; baÅŸkalar?na borçlu bulunduklar?m?z?, yaln?zca gerçeÄŸe borçlu bulunduklar?m?z? gereÄŸince düÅŸündüm mü? Birini aldat?rken zarara düÅŸürmezsem, bu, kendime zarar vermiyorum demek midir? Kusursuz olmak için haks?zl?k etmemek yeter mi?

Putting the law above man is a problem in politics which I liken to that of squaring the circle in geometry.

En vérité, je ne songeais guère à faire ni comme les autres ni autrement qu'eux. Je désirais sincèrement de faire ce qui était bien.

Such as I was, I have declared myself; sometimes vile and despicable, at others, virtuous, generous and sublime.

La vertu ne nous coûte que par notre faute, et si nous voulions être toujours sages, rarement aurions-nous besoin d'être vertueux.

La tyrannie de mon maître finit par me rendre insupportable le travail que j'aurais aimé, et par me donner des vices que j'aurais haïs

Men are wicked, yes, but man is good.

El que tales distinciones se hallen o no en los libros, no quita que se hagan en el corazón de todo hombre de buena fe consigo mismo, que no quiere permitir nada que su conciencia pueda reprocharle.

An isolated individual knows well enough that alone he cannot set fire to a palace or loot a shop, and should he be tempted to do so, he will easily resist the temptation. Making part of a crowd, he is conscious of the power given him by number, and it is sufficient to suggest to him ideas of murder or pillage for him to yield immediately to temptation.

Romans had been content to practice virtue; all was lost when they began to study it.

You should THINK about what's the right thing to do. Not just take someone's word for it -Grover

Love is love, seems to me. As long as what you love isn't armed robbery, or bombing airplanes, or kidnapping little children. -Crystal

Instead of getting at the other side with something just as bad as they did to you - or something worse - you do something good. Or at least you keep yourself from doing something bad

But how could you? said Lina. When people have been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them? You wouldn't want to, Maddy said. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

Somehow she had done wrong by trying to do right.

Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican. She shook her head. Where are the values I raised you with?

Mom] said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. Isn't that a sin? I asked Mom. Not exactly, Mom said. God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.