Quotes About Ethics

I said I thought I liked Dean's idea of a succession of lives - I can't make out from him whether he really believes that or not - and Ilse said that might be all very well if you were sure of being born again as a decent person, but how about it if you weren't?

But you needn't try to make us believe you can chloroform a cat, laughed Anne. It was all the fault of the knothole, protested Phil. It was a good thing the knothole was there, said Aunt Jamesina rather severely. Kittens HAVE to be drowned, I admit, or the world would be overrun. But no decent, grown-up cat should be done to death—unless he sucks eggs.

Decency's a dull dog," retorted Aunt Becky. "I parted company with it long ago.

Fark?nda olmadan kötülük yapmak çok kolayd?r, öyle deÄŸil mi?

Bana öyle geliyor ki bu dünyada öyle ya da böyle iyi olmaktan kurtulam?yorsun. Sadece iyi olmak zorundas?n.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? ------------------------- You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair ------------------------- "Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

She wanted all her boys to be gentlemen, she said.

Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them.

But play the game of life according to the rules.  You might as well, because you can't cheat life in the end.

Where is my conscience, Anne? I want to know. Is it in my stomach?

Si le dejaran elegir, ¿qué preferiría tener: una hermosura divina, una inteligencia deslumbrante o una bondad angelical?

She is good and smart, which is better than being pretty.

Oh, of course he's good, agreed Anne. But he doesn't seem to get any comfort out of it. If I could be good I'd dance and sing all day because I was glad of it.

is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Whether the Vatican by 1499 had become the sewer of the world, as it was later claimed, is debatable, but certainly religion and morality were parting company, the former degenerating into a business and the latter all but disappearing from the Church.

They moved to the new centers of trade and prospered, because they lived by the standard that "conscience is a pretty thing to carry to Church," but he who "pursueth it in fair market or shop may die a beggar.

The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal

There are things far more valuable than private comfort or public admiration.

Extremism in defense of virtue is no vice.

Bill Maher, on a program called Politically Incorrect said "lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building—say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." Maher was fired and the program was terminated. Some portion of the media should have risen up in outrage, not necessarily to defend Maher and get him his job back, but in defense of speaking the truth. They did not.

We have the ultimate in freedom – we have absolutely no responsibilities! – and we're abusing it.

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

What we done wrong the first time was doing it honest. I'm through with honest. It's every man for himself in this country, and that's the way I like it. There ain't much law and mostly it can be outrun.

I guess we could pile some rocks on her, Call said. I hate just to leave a body laying out. Woodrow, she's mostly et anyway, Gus said. Why spoil the buzzards' picnic?