Quotes About Ethics

If you think that by killing men you can prevent some one from censuring your evil lives, you are mistaken; that is not a way of escape which is either possible or honourable; the easiest and the noblest way is not to be disabling others, but to be improving yourselves.

For the extreme of injustice is to seem to be just when one is not.

The difficulty, my friends, is not to avoid death, but to avoid unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

He's garbage, he cares about nothing but the truth.

I mean this: we were right to agree that good men must be beneficent, and that this could not be otherwise.

No man who is not an utter fool and coward is afraid of death itself, but he is afraid of doing wrong. For to go to the world below having one's soul full of injustice is the last and worst of all evils.

the good are not so by nature...For if they were, this would follow: if the good were so by nature, we would have people who knew which among the young were good by nature; we would take those whom they had pointed out and guard them in the Acropolis, sealing them up there much more carefully than gold so that no one could corrupt them, and when they reached maturity they would be useful to their cities.

That I learn of others, I replied, is quite true; but that I am ungrateful I wholly deny. Money I have none, and therefore I pay in praise, which is all I have; and how ready I am to praise any one who appears to me to speak well you will very soon find out when you answer; for I expect that you will answer well. Listen

justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger.

a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong—acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

if the just man is good at keeping money, he is good at stealing it.

You must contrive for your future rulers another and a better life than that of a ruler, and then you may have a well-ordered State; for only in the State which offers this, will they rule who are truly rich, not in silver and gold, but in virtue and wisdom, which are the true blessings of life.

For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.

For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakeable.

They say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil; but that the evil is greater than the good.

But I speak in this vehement manner, as I must frankly confess to you, because I want to hear from you the opposite side; and I would ask you to show not only the superiority which justice has over injustice, but what effect they have on the possessor of them which makes the one to be a good and the other an evil to him.

He who is a useful keeper of anything is also a better thief.

What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there.

But whether the just have a better and happier life than the unjust is a further question which we also proposed to consider.

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Yes, but do not persons often err about good and evil: many who are not good seem to be so, and conversely? That

For it is not because they fear doing unjust deeds, but because they fear suffering them, that those who blame injustice do so.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils

Or isn't virtue in tension with wealth, as though each were lying in the scale of a balance, always inclining in opposite directions?