Quotes About Ethics

For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash 75By any indirection.

I don't see any point in trying to equate one evil with another, or to assign some stupid scale of values. They're both awful! Would

servomechanism in which a moral vacuum had been so successfully sucked clean of every molecule of real qualm or scruple that his own descriptions of the unutterable crimes he perpetrated daily seem often to float outside and apart from evil, phantasms of cretinous innocence. Yet

but I suppose it could be considered a necessary evil." "And you've got to admit, with the way things are going

If a man's word isn't any good, he's no good himself.

If a man's word isn't any good, he's no good himself.

About halfway up, far out on a limb, I found the ghost coon. As I started toward him, my dogs stopped bawling. I heard something I had heard many times. The sound was like the cry of a small baby. It was the cry of a ringtail coon when he knows it is the end of the trail. I never liked to hear this cry, but it was all in the game, the hunter and the hunted. As I sat there on the limb, looking at the old fellow, he cried again. Something came over me. I didn't want to kill him.

a man's word isn't any good, he's no good himself.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Quando devi uccidere un uomo non costa nulla essere gentile.

Un prigioniero di guerra è un uomo che cerca di ucciderti, non ci riesce, dopo di che ti chiede di non ucciderlo.

They'd want for me to do un for twenty or ten. Tedn reasonable, tedn proper, tedn Christian, tedn right." There was a short pause. "Ten guineas down and ten guineas after the trial," said Garth. "Ha!" said Jud. "Just what I thought.

These savage laws," Ross said, controlling his temper with the greatest difficulty. "These savage laws that you interpret without charity send a man to prison for feeding his children when they are hungry, for finding food where he can when it's denied him to earn it. The book from which you take your teaching, Dr. Halse, says that man shall not live by bread alone. These days you're asking men to live without even bread.

Si poteva sprecare l'intera giovinezza delineando differenze di nessun conto tra un obbligo morale e un altro.

Tedn't fair. Tedn't just. Tedn't British.

Tedn sense, tedn reasonable, tedn right, tedn proper, tedn true!

Essere gentili è il dovere di ogni inglese che si rispetti.

Tedn't right. Tedn't tidy. Tedn't fair. Tedn't clean. Tedn't good enough.

So the next day I asked Dan how is it that Bubba can get killed, and what kind of half assed nature law would allow that. He thought about it for a while, and said, 'Well, I'll tell you, Forrest, all of these laws are not specially pleasing to us. But there is laws nonetheless. Like when a tiger pounce on a monkey in the jungle - bad for the money, but good for the tiger. That is just the way it is.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.