Quotes About Ethics

No people respond more spontaneously to fair play. If you treat Americans well they always want to treat you better.

Burke's dictum, "If I cannot have reform without injustice, I will not have reform.

Vadinas, varomoji j?ga yra ne individo s?žin?, o santykis, atsirad?s tarp jo ir kit? žmoni?. Ne tod?l blogai elgiam?s, kad sunaikinome savyje Diev?, o tod?l, kad Dievas ir net Šetonas tampa nesvarb?s, nes sankcij? veiksmui suteikia kitas žmogus.

Ale z tego niedosz?ego starcia pozostanie mu ju?, a? do ko?ca chyba, rosn?ce prze?wiadczenie, ?e cnota ma szpony i umie mordowa?, ?e ?wiat moralny i duchowy podlega powszechnemu prawu okrucie?stwa.

More wisdom is contained in the best crime fiction than in philosophy.

Yes, you know damned well what you should have done if you sincerely desired their surrender. You could have dropped it [the atom bomb] on one of their mountains, even in the sea, anywhere they could see what would happen if they persisted in the war, but you chose instead to drop it on peopled cities. I know you, the white mentality: Japanese, Chinese, Africans, we are all subhuman. You would drop an atom bomb on Abeokuta or any of your colonies if it suited you!

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought,] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

True, science has conquered many diseases, broken the genetic code, and even placed human beings on the moon, and yet when a man of eighty is left in a room with two eighteen-year-old cocktail waitresses nothing happens.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better [...] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.

There are two kinds of people in this world, good and bad. The good people sleep better, but the bad people tend to have more fun during the waking hours.

Faire son chemin dans la vie n'est pas simple et tout ce qui peut marcher sans nuire à autrui est une bonne chose

Nadie rezará un kaddish por Weinstein Tan poco tiempo por delante, pensó, y tantas cosas por hacer.

I must say, it amazed me how many in my profession caved in like dominoes.

Lovers make their own moral universe

It's cruel to bring life into this terrible world.

Aunque sigue siendo discutible que la pena de muerte sirva como disuasorio, los estudios demuestran que la probabilidad de que los criminales reincidan se reduce casi a la mitad después de la ejecución.

O mundo divide-se em pessoas boas e pessoas más. As pessoas boas têm um sono tranquilo. As pessoas más divertem-se muito mais.

Indifference to me equals evil.

I was trying to balance Soon-Yi's problems with my own, with Dylan, Moses, and Satchel, whom Mia had possession of, complete control over, and a willingness to use them as pawns if and when necessary.

I'd rather hurt Lee a little, than destroy Hannah.

Soon-Yi was not just a diamond in the rough but round cut and flawless.