Quotes About Ethics

Als je iemand dood wilt hebben, vind ik dat je op zijn minst het fatsoen moet hebben het zelf te doen, en het goed te doen.

His philosophy insists that ethics comes first, that "ethics precedes ontology": the first thing we know is our own being, and the way that we know everything else is through the other person.

You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for." Not that I'm one to talk.

But the means—he was less certain that the means were above reproach. But what can a man do, or a woman either, but use what comes to hand?

In the light of eternity, is it better to sell out and ride or stand up and walk?

If you're going to spend your life standing on principle, you want to be sure everyone understands what the principle is.

But you said so yourself,the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die? 'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life.

Quem era o idiota que punha a felicidade deste mundo na repartição da riqueza?

Desprezava os discursadores, os astutos que entram na política como quem entra na advocacia, para ganhar dinheiro com a retórica.

Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

You'd never get Burle to behave decently. When a man sank as low as that, the only thing to do was to throw a spadeful of mud over him and get rid of him like the rotting carcass of some poisonous beast. And even if you shoved his nose in his own shit, he'd only start again the next day and end up stealing a few sous to buy sticks of barley sugar for lice-ridden little beggar-girls.

En sonra, birinci savaÅŸ konseyini, bir san??a gizli kalan bir belgeye dayanarak hüküm giydirdiÄŸi için hukuku çiÄŸnemekle suçluyorum. Ä°kinci savaÅŸ konseyini de üstten gelen emre uyarak, bir suçluyu, suçunu bile bile temize ç?kar?p a??r adli suç iÅŸlemekle, böylece birinci konseyin yasaya ayk?r? davran???n? örtbas etmekle suçluyorum.

What scum respectable people are!

Understand this! A year ago General Billot and Generals de Boisdeffre and Gonse knew that Dreyfus was innocent, and they have kept this frightful thing to themselves. And these men sleep and have wives and children whom they love!

When a man was honest in his dealings, you could forgive him the rest.

Was für Schurken, diese ehrbaren Leute!

The courtesans, as Vandeuvres used to say, avenged public morality by emptying his moneybags.

He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitable, henceforth one must be just. Given justice, indeed, horrid misery would disappear, and no such thing as charity would be needed.

it was absurd to have killed a man for nothing...

It's wrong to anticipate evil.

Precisamente los buenos son más egoístas que los dominantes.

honest people don't hide their deeds. (Nelly about Heathcliff, ch. X, p. 103)

There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it.