Quotes About Ethics

One said whatever would be of advantage; the question whether it was true no longer arose.

We are not defined by our things. Its not our clothes we wear or the cars we own or the art we aquire. It's not where we live but how we live. Its out ACTIONS that are remebered once we are gone.

Ever, we are not defined by our things. It's not the clothes we wear, the cars that we drive, the art we acquire - it's not where we live - but how we live that defines us. It's our actions that are remembered long after we're gone.

And while I definitely agree with that, I also think the same can be said of how people handle power.

La magia deforma la realidad en interés de otro, con el fin de provocar una duda liberadora; la trampa, en cambio, deforma la realidad en detrimento de otro, con el objetivo de robarle su dinero.

KuÅŸkusuz çarm?h?n ülkesinde yaÅŸayanlar ile Japonlar?n prensibi ayn?yd?: Birinin hayat?n? kurtarmak demek, abart?l? minnet durumu sebebiyle onu köle haline getirmek demekti. Ä°nsan?n özgürlüÄŸünü elinden almaktansa ölmesine izin vermek daha iyiydi.

Podría parecer que en los USA la mentira sea el mal por excelencia, si puedo expresarlo así. Sin duda soy muy europea: la mentira sólo me ofusca si perjudica a alguien. En este caso, no veo a quién puede perjudicar. Algunos

Cada cual tiene su moral. Juzgo los actos con la vara de medir del placer que proporcionan. El éxtasis voluptuoso es la suprema meta de la existencia, y no necesita justificación alguna. Pero, sin placer, el crimen es un mal gratuito, un sórdido daño. Resulta indefendible.

Todo esto confirma mi metafísica: el cuerpo no es malo, el alma sí lo es. El cuerpo es la sangre: es puro. El alma es el cerebro: es grasa. La grasa del cerebro inventó el mal.

No condenéis a los mentirosos. En el fondo del alma de todo aquel que miente no hay quizá más que un instinto confuso de estética y de perfección.

False speech does harm to readers, who are misled by it; it does harm to journalism, which is weakened by it; and it does harm to the subjects of the speech, whose reputations and careers are damaged by it.

What it comes down to is I don't mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people. I know that one of the tenets of the character is that he doesn't, but the reason that he doesn't is because having that much power makes you responsible for weaker people.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

Some mistakes in life you can come back from. Harming someone else is something different. With my own team, we're never going to harm someone that's weaker than us.

What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is the individual; we shouldn't kid ourselves.

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

We need to deal with the economy and the moral weakness of the country.

One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.

Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.