Quotes About Ethics

Priests know how to bury the worst scandals.

Medicine is a thankless profession. When you get paid by the rich, you feel like a flunky, by the poor like a thief. How can you take a fee from people who can't afford to eat or go to the movies? Especially when they're at their last gasp. It's not easy. You let it ride. You get soft-hearted. And your ship goes down.

Donc pas d erreur? Ce qu on faisait a se tirer dessus, comme ca, sans meme se voir, n etait pas defendu! Cela faisait partie des choses qu on peut faire sans meriter une bonne engueulade.

Donc pas d'erreur Ce qu'on faisait à se tirer dessus comme ça sans même se voir n'était pas défendu Cela faisait partie des choses qu'on peut faire sans mériter une bonne engueulade. C'était même reconnu encouragé sans doute par les gens sérieux comme le tirage au sort les fiançailles la chasse à courre ... Rien à dire. Je venais de découvrir d'un coup la guerre tout entière. Je venais d'être dépucelé.

There ought to be some mark by which to distinguish good people from bad.

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You have to choose: death or lies.

Cuando tienes la cara bien dura, es bastante, entonces casi todo te está permitido, absolutamente todo, tienes a la mayoría de tu parte y la mayoría es quien decreta lo que es locura y lo que no lo es.

The poetry of heroism holds an irresistible appeal for people who aren't involved in a war, especially when they're making piles of money out of one. It's only natural.

There were certain rules in life that had to be adhered to. You simply couldn't come between a person and his child. That would be selfish and unforgivable.

Strong faith is more important than high intelligence. Moral force is the only force that can accomplish great things in the world

You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience. Keep your head up, keep your shoulders back, keep your self-respect, be nice, be smart. And remember that there are practically no overnight successes.

People who switch their niceness on and off are not to be trusted.

Bukan kegagalan uang merupakan kejahatan, tapi cita-cita yang dangkal

Mrs. Gibson has got her way all her life by leaving things to people's consciences.

I think it's sorter real dastardly to break a promise you make to a child.

Never write a line you would be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

I kind of felt I shouldn't shorten their lovely lives by picking them—I wouldn't want to be picked if I were an apple blossom. But the temptation was irresistible. What do you do when you meet with an irresistible temptation?

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.

The law holds man in bondage; love makes him free.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics. The usual way of looking at things sees objects as it were from the midst of them, the view sub specie aeternitatis from outside. In such a way that they have the whole world as background.