Quotes About Ethics

All power is cursed. The most terrible among us will do anything to get it, and those who'd wield power best don't want it thrust upon them.

We don't need to be good, but let's try to be fair.

Love is a noble cause,' Vivi reminded her. 'How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong?

It's ridiculous the way everyone acts like killing a king is going to make someone better at being one," Vivi says. "Imagine if, in the mortal world, a lawyer passed the bar by killing another lawyer.

may be cruel, a monster, and a murderer, but I do not shirk my responsibilities.

It's ridiculous the way everyone acts like killing a king is going to make someone better at being one,' Vivi says. 'Imagine if, in the mortal world, a lawyer passed the bar by killing another lawyer.

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Why do we kill people, who have killed people, to show that killing people is wrong?

Maybe, no matter what right thing you tried to do, your action would be the wrong thing for somebody

And empty words are evil.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself.

Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.

Hélas! Nous ne manquons jamais d'argent pour nos caprices, nous ne discutons que le prix des choses utiles ou nécessaires; nous jetons l'or avec insouciance à des danseuses, et nous marchandons un ouvrier dont la famille affamée attend la paiement d'un mémoire. Combien de gens ont un habit de cent francs, un diamant à la pomme de leur canne, et dinent à vingt-cinque sous? Il semble que nous n'achetions jamais assez chèrementles plaisirs de la vanité

Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.

Notre conscience est un juge infaillible, quand nous ne l'avons pas encore assassinée.

We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience

Mankind are not perfect, but one age is more or less hypocritical than another, and then simpletons say that its morality is high or low.