Quotes About Ethics

I find it difficult to understand the kind of human being who lives, or who is sure he can live, purely, happily, serenely while engaging in deceit. Human beings never did teach me that abstruse secret.

Just as a man has the right to live, he ought also to have the right to die.

I hope for a revolution in ethics and morals. Then, my obsequiousness and this need to plod through life according to others' expectations would simply dissolve.

Podría ser la confianza pura una fuente de delito?

Yaln?zca birilerinin bana bir ?eyler ?smarlamas? dü?üncesi kar??s?nda deh?ete kap?l?yorum. Özellikle, o ki?inin kendi eme?iyle kazand??? paray? benim keyfim için harcamas? bana ac? veren, içimi daraltan dayan?lmaz bir durum.

Next, don't fail. I don't mind if you cheat, but just do not fail. If you fail, it will be a blemish upon your name for your entire life.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. This is what we both certainly are. The revolution must be taking place somewhere, but the old morality persists unchanged in the world around us and lies athwart our way. However much the waves on the surface of the sea may rage, the water at the bottom, far from experiencing a revolution, lies motionless, awake but feigning sleep.

But there are times when one man's sense of justice may tear apart the peaceful domestic lives of other people.

We will live in perpetual struggle with the old morality, like the sun.

Mientras que las personas tienen el derecho de vivir con libertad, tienen también el derecho de morir en el momento que lo deseen; pero, cuando la madre está viva, hay que renunciar a este derecho porque, al ejercerlo, al mismo tiempo que quitarse la propia vida se llevarían la de la madre.

La moral que nos inculcan en el instituto es muy distinta a la que rige en el mundo real.

A life must be saved as long as it can be no matter whose it is.

The effect of one upright individual is incalculable.

It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Power without morality leads to abuse, and freedom without morality leads to depravity.

The best clay to shape your life is your character not the the talent.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Collecting antiquities is to archeology as rape is to love.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.