Quotes About Ethics

O Zeus, perché hai dato ai mortali indizi chiari dell'oro che risulti falso, mentre nel corpo degli uomini non vi è impresso alcun segno con cui riconoscere il malvagio?

There is nothing worse than a bad woman, and nothing better in any way than a good one.

If the gods do a shameful thing, they are not gods.

For the discreet among mortals are such as pass through life correctly with wisdom.

Verily we must believe the Gods are senseless, if we feel well disposed to murderers.

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He´ll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he knows he can dress up murder in handsome words.

but whoever exercises the art of divination, is a fool; if indeed he chance to show disagreeable things, he is rendered hateful to those to whom he may prophesy; but speaking falsely to his employers from motives of pity, he is unjust as touching the Gods.—Phœbus alone should speak in oracles to men, who fears nobody.

CRE. There is nobleness in thee; but there is some degree of folly.

Tis wise to do good work, but also wise To pay the worker. Aye, and fair reward Makes twofold pleasure, though the work be hard.

But I know their disposition and nature; they will rather die; for among virtuous men, disgrace is considered before life.

To live dishonorably is better than to die gloriously.

This has long since been my established opinion, the just man is born for his neighbors; but he who has a mind bent upon gain is both useless to the city and disagreeable to deal with, but best for himself.

A true warrior can only serve others, not himself...When you become a mercenary, you're just a bully with a gun.

yá'ádaat'éhígíí bee hajiidziihgo 'ál'??. A person should only speak words that are good. Saad

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.

I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith.

Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.

These men must die to make a world for Hooper; they were the aborigines, vermin by right of law, to be shot at leisure so that things might be safe for the travelling salesmen.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

the Yale professor Stanley Milgram's infamous 1961 experiment sought to investigate the extent to which ordinary people would obey the orders of figures in authority to inflict pain on others. On one side of a room divided by a one-way mirror, a scientist ordered a volunteer to deliver electrical shocks of ever-increasing strength to a person strapped to a chair on the other side of the room whenever she or he gave wrong answers to questions read from a questionnaire.

Everyone suspects themselves of at least one of the cardinal virtues...

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.

Men don't often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.