Quotes About Ethics

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

You would have realized that it wasn't Mumtaz, a muslim, a friend of yours, but a human being you had killed. I mean, if he was a bastard, by killing him you wouldn't have killed the bastard in him; similarly, assuming that he was a Muslim, you wouldn't have killed his Muslimness, but him.

A man is not responsible for the crime he commits, his circumstances are.

Heed not the flatterer?s fulsome talk, He from thee hopes some trifle to obtain; Thou wilt, shouldst thou his wishes baulk, Ten hundred times as much of censure gain.

Labour like a man, and be ready in doing kindnesses. He is a good-for-nothing fellow who eateth by the toil of another?s hand.

No one hath come into the world for a continuance save him who leaveth behind him a good name.*

?imdi bak?yorum,yüzünüz hiç de fena bir k?za benzemiyor.Fakat yapt?klar?n?z? kendiniz be?eniyor musunuz ?

Fakat içimizde, bizim "ahlak" taraf?m?zla hiçbir ?ekilde münasebete geçmeyerek hadiseleri muhakeme eden, neticeler ç?karan ve tedbirler alan bir "hesabi" taraf?m?z vard? ve lafta de?ilse bile fiilde daima o galip ç?k?yor ve onun dedi?i oluyordu.

Suiniyeti esas olarak kabul eden ve bir insan?n dürüst, samimi ve namuslu olabilece?ine ihtimal vermeyen bir kimseye kar?? kendini müdafaa edebilmenin hazin imkans?zl??? onun elini kolunu ba?lam??t?.

Bu dünya böyledir i?te, kimi adam öldürdü?ü için katil diye an?l?r, kimi ad? katile ç?kt? diye adam öldürür.

She had wandered so far from the rules of propriety that she was making up new ones just to keep from sinking into the abyss.

He'd often ignored his uncle's teachings about gentlemanly behavior, but one stricture he'd always abided by: no man worth his salt took advantage of a woman.

just because you can have something doesn't mean you should.

It's nice to be important, but it's also important to be nice. Never forget that.

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

Bullshit may get you to the top, but it never lets you stay there!

Morality always differs from person to person, according to time, place, situation—and convenience.

Only for a person who is living with duality there is good and bad karma.

you did not create life, so you have no business to take it either—whether it is yours or someone else's.

spirituality is not a moral code.

Moral of the story: bullshit may get you to the top, but it never lets you stay there!

that people understand this: you did not create life, so you have no business to take it either—whether it is yours or someone else's.

Make a list of all the things that the major religions of the world call a "sin," and you will find that just to be alive is a sin.

It was seen as a way of misusing life, of encroaching into areas where you should not. It was practiced only by certain types of people obsessed with power or money.