Quotes About Ethics

He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver.

After all, if you can't kill a man in front of God's face you probably shouldn't kill him at all.

Don't worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged." She

A person who breaks a promise diminishes herself. It's like losing a finger. It's worse than being paralyzed, which is merely physical. Someone whose promises are worthless has a disabled soul.

We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.

Ha creído que, al servicio de Dios, el fin justifica los medios.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you, Maud thought.

With faultless good manners they would lead the world to destruction.

But when you grab happiness you may let go of something more valuable --- your integrity. - Hugh Pilaster

And so, Aldred thought, great ones sin with impunity while lesser men are brutally chastised.

Because all this stuff about military targets is absolute rubbish. There's no point in bombing German factories, because they just rebuild them. So we're targeting large areas of dense working-class housing. They can't replace the workers so fast." Lowther looked shocked. "That would mean it's our policy to kill civilians.

People know the difference between right and wrong—and if they don't, that's what priests are for.

And that would be sufficient, if we lived in a world that was ruled by laws." Aldred sat on a stool, leaned forward, and spoke quietly. "But the man matters more than the law, as you know.

En definitiva, hasta las personas más crueles tienen algún escrúpulo.

person who breaks a promise diminishes herself. It's like losing a finger. It's worse than being paralyzed, which is merely physical. Someone whose promises are worthless has a disabled soul.

The queen did not know what to say about a man whose virtue was that he did not beat his wife. "He was even kind to his ponies," Mrs. Dai added. "I'm sure he was," said the queen, back on familiar ground.

Boy did not see why two great nations such as England and Germany should go to war over a half-barbaric wasteland such as Poland.

If you want to change the world, then foreign relations is the field in which you can do the most good – or evil.

Its job was to arrange the painless deaths of handicapped people who could not survive without costly care. It had done splendid work in the last couple of years, disposing of tens of thousands of useless people. The problem was that German public opinion was not yet sophisticated enough to understand the need for such deaths, so the program had to be kept quiet.

Lowther looked shocked. "That would mean it's our policy to kill civilians." "Exactly." "But the government assures us—" "The government lies," Boy said. "And the bomber crews know it. Many of them don't give a damn, of course, but some feel bad. They believe that if we're doing the right thing, then we should say so, and if we're doing the wrong thing we should stop.

Siempre es el momento propicio para hacer lo correcto.

Nor would he care what the target was. If they bombed Chile, it would be the same as bombing New York.

If God could not forgive lascivious priests, there would be very few clergy in heaven.