Quotes About Ethics

In the nature of things a priesthood is always demoralizing.

An author doesn't have the moral right to violate truth and take refuge in the claim that he/she is only a creative artist.

We create our gods based on the stage of development we are at in matters of ethics, morals and spirituality.

To sin is human, to lay snares is diabolical.

I put it to you, Doctor, that our gods are what good and bad once were before they became categories un human reasoning.

Full revelation, she couldn't help feeling, was something which was considered a virtue only among the reckless or the cruel.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

It seems there is no such thing as a purely good deed, a completely right action. Even this task, which i took on for the very best of reasons, involves making choices that are not that good, choices that might even be wrong.

Human beings have a remarkable talent for persuading themselves of the authenticity and nobility of aspects of themselves which are in fact expedient, spurious, base.

In these our degenerate times, men bent on nothing but vainglory and personal gain – hollow, bombastic men for whom nothing is off-limits if it advances their petty cause – will claim to be great leaders

and I began to wonder if we were moral beings at all or simply savages who defined their private bigotries as necessary ethics, as the only ways to be.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. He moves in mysterious ways: men say.

What is heroism in our time? What is villainy? How much we have forgotten, if we don't know the answer to such questions anymore.

The crux of a great person's life is the choice between doing what is right and what he wants to do. Abraham Lincoln, who was a proficient wrestler and enjoyed a good bout, probably would have preferred spending his time on the mat to starting a war in which approximately two per cent of the population died

He was a heartless monster, she told him; did he not understand—O abominable one!—that human life was short and that each day of love stolen from it was a crime against life itself?

What I hoped for is indeed beyond hope,' he said. 'I was out of my mind, looking for this year's birds in last year's nests. And all around me America – and not only America, the whole human race! – yes, even our India! – was also losing its reason, its capacity for ethics, its goodness, its soul. And it may be, I can't say, that this deep failure brought down upon us the deeper failure of the cosmos

El verdadero atractivo del mal es la seductora facilidad con la que uno puede aventurarse por ese camino

If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one.

Perhaps it was wrong to lie with her. Another duty, another obligation, another potential source of guilt. Was I lying to her in lying with her?

Is the truth too poor a thing for us? Is any man innocent of embellishing it at times, or even of abandoning it entirely?

Fear was stronger than ethics, stronger than judgement, stronger than responsibility, stronger than civilisation. Fear was a bolting animal trampling children underfoot as it fled from itself. Fear was a bigot, a tyrant, a coward, a red mist, a whore. Fear was a bullet pointed at his heart.

Desde el principio, los hombres han utilizado a Dios para justificar lo injustificable.

The question is, do you mean to do right by her? Do you mean well by her? Or is your desire so great that it overwhelms your sense of the right and the good?

Vecina y amiga. ¿Qué más tengo que decir? Por supuesto que las maliciosas revistas de escándalo de la ciudad llenaron columnas con insinuaciones y frases de doble sentido, pero ello no nos autoriza a ponernos a su nivel.