Quotes About Ethics

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Virtue is its own punishment.

You're not an M.P., you're a gastronomic pimp.

As the wise say, a sensible man looks after his garden, and a coward looks after his money; a just man cares about his city and a crazy man cares about the government; and a wise man studies the thickness of fern-fronds.

Out there's a moral law. Within I've only stars!

Hay que joder para vivir y no vivir para joder". Quien así hablaba, con tan sobria moral era -naturalmente- una prostituta. Sirva de ejemplo a respetables damas, críticos literarios, policías.

Wherein does a woman's honour reside, old chap? In her vagina or in her spirit?

Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions are unalterable. This straitjacket psychology relates his fiction directly back to the black and white ethical world of fairy tale and fable; it is in conflict with his frequently expounded general theory of moral relativity, that good and evil are not the same thing at all times and in all places.

Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology.

From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar loses in morality when he becomes a thief he regains in self-respect.

The rich can afford to be virtuous, the poor must shift as best they can.

For Justine's conception of virtue is a specifically feminine one in that sexual abstinence plays a large part in it. In common speech, a 'bad boy' may be a thief, or a drunkard, or a liar, and not necessarily just a womaniser. But a 'bad girl' always contains the meaning of a sexually active girl and Justine knows she is good because she does not fuck.

Un orrore morale tale da pervadere visibilmente i lineamenti! Non si era mai visto nulla di simile. Eravamo piuttosto sorprese, e ci sentimmo persino scorrette, come se noi vivessimo in un crepuscolo etico, in un pidocchioso mondo di compromessi, menzogne, giochi di prestigio applicati ai sentimenti. E così era, credo. La chiamavamo "Vita".

Life isn't about having things, Grandmother. It's about being a decent person.

should not enslave another. Slavery is an awful business.

I'm not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, 'Let's all just get along.' I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.

Septimus look at Jenna, his green eyes serious, "It's a luxury Jen," he said. "What do you mean?" Septimus stared at the scraped and bloody snow at his feet. It took him some moments to reply. "I mean…" he began slowly. "I mean that if you go through life and never face a situation where, in order for your to survive, someone else has to die, then you're lucky. That's what I mean.

She would happily send a rat hurtling to its doom and yet risk her life for a duck.

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there. Raspberry Jam