Quotes About Ethics

Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.

Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.

That it's possible to be against the circus, not because you're afraid to die there, but because it's wicked and wrong. ~Aurelia, 152

Among the innumerable books on Addy's shelves was one by Ernest Hemingway in which I found these words: 'What is moral is what you feel good after. What is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Dante was young enough to be her son . . . maybe even her grandson. She had no business responding to him at all.

To her mind, a good cop was worth their weight in gold, but every profession had their bad apples, and bad cops could do more damage than your average dirtbag criminal. She felt no regret or guilt over what she did.

tik?kite kaip norite, tai j?s? asmeninis reikalas, ta?iau priesak? laikykit?s, elkit?s kaip ir dera. Beje, norint elgtis kaip dera, netgi neb?tina b?ti krikš?ionimi. Galima b?ti netgi niekuo. Paskutiniu agnostiku, besparniu ateistu.

All crimes," she remembered him advising, "are crimes against continuity—continuity of life, continuity of ownership, systems continuity.

The reason for this is that the problem of distinguishing what we are and what we are not responsible for in this life is one of the greatest problems of human existence.

Third, the decision to withhold the truth should never be based on personal needs, such as a need for power, a need to be liked or a need to protect one's map from challenge.

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

O maior pecado, depois do pecado, é a publicação do pecado.

one could deduce that vice is often the manure of virtue

avarice is only the exaggeration of a virtue, and the virtues must be like budgets: a surplus is better than a deficit.

estou que muita mais gente poria termo aos seus dias, se pudesse achar essa espécie de cocaína moral dos bons livros

coisa em si pecaminosa, porque sem pecadores não há inferno, nem purgatório, e sem estes dois lugares o céu valeria menos.

Ora aqui está um homem que detesta a folha e paga. Quantos a adoram e não pagam!

the moral unity of all things attained by the exclusion of those who opposed me.

Conscience is just the same; it examines itself often whenever it thinks it looks good. And remorse is nothing more than the scowl of a conscience seeing its own vileness.

mas a avareza é apenas a exageração de uma virtude e as virtudes devem ser como os orçamentos: melhor é o saldo que o deficit.

A onça mata o novilho porque o raciocínio da onça é que ela deve viver, e se o novilho é tenro tanto melhor: eis o estatuto universal.

As imoralidades do Império, bem mais contidas ou mais bem assimiladas ou ocultas, não servem como álibi para as da República, as quais parecem uma espécie de vingança dos "espíritos animais" enjaulados durante tantos anos.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Não se pode definir como virtude a matança dos próprios concidadãos, a traição aos amigos e a demonstração de falta de lealdade, de piedade, de consciência e de ideal moral: Essas práticas podem conquistar o poder ao príncipe, nunca a glória.