Quotes About Ethics

L'opinion du monde ne compte pas, mon fils. Seul compte que tu saches, au tréfonds de ton cÅ"ur, que tu n'as pas souillé ton honneur. L'honneur est une chose sacrée et doit être traité comme tel. Un homme peut survivre au scandale, à la ruine, ou à pire encore, s'il sait que son honneur est sauf.

Idly he toyed with the notion of ripping Leybrook's head off his shoulders. It would be a very pleasant, extremely satisfying project, but Virginia would probably not approve.

The case for doing what one sees as one's duty must be strong, but how can we be indifferent to the consequences that may follow from our doing what we take to be our just duty?

We publicized it. We capitalized on it. We exploited it for ratings or whatever, for stories, with our memes and GIFs and tweeting and all that. We jump on the train. We show their pictures on live TV. We make clever hashtags. We find ways to, like, absolve ourselves from responsibility or say we've helped out with a retweet or something. We've helped because we've mentioned an injustice in passing to our neighbor and we both got to shake our heads.

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises

MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

"Immoral" is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb.

When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Commerce, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

Good laws have their origins in bad morals.

A computer can be more harmful than a gun and more useful than a pen.

I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.

Man has responsiblity, not power. Tuscarora

it's not often in life that you can misbehave for the good of the cause

If with evil You punish the evil I have done Pray tell, what is the difference between You and me?

je sais parfaitement que la peur pourrait faire basculer n'importe quelle personne dans le crime.

Souvent, lorsqu'un pays trahit ses valeurs, il trahit aussi ses intérêts.

La vertu devient morbide si elle n'est adoucie par quelques écarts, et la foi devient aisément cruelle si elle n'est atténuée par quelques doutes." (dans Léon l'Africain

If You punish with evil the evil I have done, tell, what is the difference between You and me?

Dunya, Tanri'nun aldatilabilecegini ve ellerinin temiz kalmasi icin oldurmemekle calmamanin yeterli olacagini dusunen acinasi insanlarla dolu. DoÄŸu'dan Uzakta