Quotes About Ethics

Make for virtue and happiness, generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

The murkiest den, the most opportune place" (the voice of conscience thundered poetically), "the strongest suggestion our worser genius can, shall never melt mine honour into lust. Never, never!" he resolved.

There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.

Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license.

In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying. ---(From the pamphlet: The Scientific Solution of the Problem of Government.)

In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying.

Are human beings so much more worthy and better than we are, that they are allowed to take advantage of so many cruel privileges with impunity?

Edel, kötülük etmeyecek erkekler yapma imkan? var m?? Tanr? da, bir an bunu kendine sormuÅŸ olmal?. Bilmiyorum. Ama denerim.

I produttori di seta di Lavilledieu erano, chi più chi meno, dei gentiluomini, e mai avrebbero pensato di infrangere una qualsiasi legge del loro Paese. L'ipotesi di farlo dall'altra parte del mondo, tuttavia, risultò loro ragionevolmente sensata.

Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.

I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and hating getting ripped off.

It is often the way of the world that goodness is often repaid with badness.

the church should just stay out of people's pants.

My Grandma once told me 'the Church should stay out of people's pants'.

What the world needs now is a conscience.

Everyone can be sick in their soul and still think they're the good guys.

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

In businesses, sir, there are no friends, only associates.

Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

She's sociopathic. She will have no moral compunction in doing whatever is in her interests. It's as simple as that.

We can't afford to be without God, Feliks continued. Even if he doesn't exist, we have to hold on to him. Because if we don't, then how are we to convince ourselves that we have to go on with this fight? If you take God out of it, then right and justice become small, human things. And weak things, too.

Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. That fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie—they see nothing wrong with it.

If you take God out of it, then right and justice become small, human things. And weak things too.