Quotes About Ethics

that disinterestedness was the finest thing in the world.

el crimen repugna a la naturaleza humana. Sin embargo, la civilización nos ha creado necesidades, vicios y falsos apetitos, cuya influencia llega tal vez a ahogar en nosotros los buenos instintos, arrastrándonos al mal.

crimes, but because we know that crimes have

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

In reality it is far less prejudicial to witness the immorality of the great than to witness that immorality which leads to greatness.

It was never assumed in the United States that the citizen of a free country has a right to do whatever he pleases; on the contrary, social obligations were there imposed upon him more various than anywhere else.

What one must fear, moreover, is not so much the sight of the immorality of the great as that of immorality leading to greatness.

While he loved liberty, he detested the crimes that had been committed in its name. Jon J. Ingalls

To mimic virtue is of every age; but the hypocrisy of luxury belongs more particularly to the ages of democracy.

Il n'y a rien de si difficile à distinguer que les nuances qui séparent un malheur immérité d'une infortune que le vice a produite. Combien de misères sont à la fois le résultat de ces deux causes!

The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law and the surest pledge of freedom.

Thus whilst the law permits the Americans to do what they please, religion prevents them from conceiving, and forbids them to commit, what is rash or unjust.

Children aren't helped to become caring members of a community, or ethical decision-makers, or critical thinkers, so much as they're simply trained to follow directions.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

I picked up a rare disease called conscience .... That can often turn fatal.

The difference between a Welfare State and a Benevolent Despot is slight.

The law makes the silliest damned fuss about death. People die by the thousands everyday; but simply because someone has had the energy and enterprise to assist old D'Courtney to his demise, the law insists on turning him into an enemy of the people. I think it's idiotic, but please don't quote me.

Meu amor pelo cinema é mais importante do que qualquer moral

Mi amor por el cine es más grande que mi moral.

Diane Beaver, who served as State Judge Advocate on Guantanamo's Joint Task Force in 2002–04, when it adopted harsh methods, told an interviewer that the show 24 had inspired many of the eighteen controversial interrogation techniques used on detainees, including waterboarding, sexual humiliation, and the terrorizing of prisoners with dogs. Jack Bauer, she said, "gave people lots of ideas," adding: "We saw [24] on cable [and] it was hugely popular.

No man can justly impose anything upon those who owe him nothing. . . . Whosoever therefore . . . grounds his pretensions of right upon usurpation and tyranny, declares himself to be, like Nimrod, a usurper and a tyrant, that is an enemy to God and man, and to have no right at all.

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.