Quotes About Ethics

Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. And

there is "response" in responsibility.

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Ta práce byla ?istá prostituce... prostituce m?že být zcela v poÃ…â"¢ádku pro profesionál(k)y - ale je riziková pro amatéry.

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

Just be aware that what you achieve doesn't matter as much as what kind of person you are

But it had always been my mom's philosophy that the way we treat animals goes hand in hand with the way we treat people, and so she would dedicate her life to stopping men like this one, bushmeat traders hoping for sale

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

Elizabeth Berg

Reputation is made in a moment; Character is built over a lifetime.

Let your conscience be your guide.

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

You don't like it? asked Luca, who loves this stuff. I bet Gandhi never ate lamb intestines in his life, I said. He could have. No, he couldn't have, Luca. Gandhi was a vegetarian. But vegetarians CAN eat this, Luca insisted. Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just shit.

She remembered a line from Montaigne, something she had read years ago, which had always stayed with her, and which now felt horribly pertinent: "These are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.

And when I pray, I shall ask the Lord in heaven whatever happened to my father's ethics - or did he never have any? Henry leapt to his feet and pounded both fists on his desk in rage. You little idiot! he roared. I never had any!

Well, you can't have too much conscience about things!" said Gladys. "Or else you'll never stop worrying!" And that, I'm afraid, was the extent of our moral agonies. Subject closed.

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress.

Nor did it occur to me that I couldn't keep a showgirl in my bedroom as a pet, just because I felt like it.

sins of the flesh will not get you punished in the afterlife. They will only get you punished in this life.

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us, and then it's up to the individual (or the family, or the society) to decide what will be brought forth—the virtues or the malevolence.

Guilt is just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking you're making moral progress. - Vivian

I'm with the British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on this point, when he observes: "If the art legitimates cruelty, I think the art is not worth having.

Why did anyone ever act beyond the scope of base self-interest?

itself. Although we never lived together or shared a bed, he was always a part of me. I saved stories for him all week, so I would have good things to tell him. I asked for his opinions, because I respected his ethics. I came to cherish his face precisely because it was his. Even his burn scars became beautiful to my eye.