Quotes About Ethics

We must put our trust in Robespierre; he is incorruptible.

Debemos amar la virtud, pero es bueno saber que se trata de un sencillo recurso imaginado por los hombres para vivir unidos cómodamente

Não concebo por que misturam, nesse caso, considerações políticas e paixões partidárias. Ele é superior a tudo isso, pois que é uma questão moral.

Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Modesty and unselfishness--these are the virtues which men praise--and pass by.

O que devo fazer?'' e não: ''O que os outros devem fazer?'' É o que distingue a moral do moralismo.

O homem não é Deus. Cabe a nós fazer que seja pelo menos humano.

Se Deus não existisse, tudo seria permitido'', diz um personagem de Dostoiévski. Não é verdade, porque, crente ou não, tu não se permite tudo: tudo, inclusive o pior, não seria digno de ti! (...) Não é porque Deus existe que devo agir bem; é porque devo agir bem que posso necessitar - não para ser virtuoso, mas para escapar do desespero - de crer em Deus.

Não é porque Deus existe que devo agir bem; é porque devo agir bem que posso necessitar - não para ser virtuoso, mas para escapar do desespero - de crer em Deus.

The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are virtues which men praise - and pass by.

My father says he doesn't like hawks because they swoop down on mice and other defenseless desert creatures. He can't stand the thought of something strong preying on something weak.

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Do you blame the sword for killing? It is the hand and brain behind it which holds the responsibility!

lumea este totuna cu r?ul, un r?u mereu mai viclean dec?t poate b?nui omul, iar binele este una din vicleniile lui.

one cannot be held forever to a less-than-honorable act, after a life of great integrity, just because of one moment of weakness.

No matter what they do, our elected representatives don't give a fuck anymore about public opinion! They take drugs, frequent whores, rob, steal, cheat, sell themselves, commit perjury, make deals with the Mafia, and what happens to them? The newspapers talk about it for, oh, three days maybe? Then everybody forgets about it. But you—you who exposed the scandal, they won't forget about you, nosirree, you can count on that, and they'll make you pay for it.

In fact, the cavalier attitude of the self-righteous liar so common to contemporary democratic leaders was thought back then to be the exclusive province of despots and criminals.

Disease, in the Gandhian view, results from impurity and must be allowed to do its cleansing work, and the same goes for extreme weather and earthquakes: with unusual consistency, the mahatma preached that victims of such events had it coming.

Isn't suffering unearned by the victims precisely what is so morally repugnant about the unfolding crisis? If so, why make it a virtue?

Por la corrupción del lenguaje empiezan otras muchas corrupciones..." "By the corruption of language many other corruptions begin ...

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.