Quotes about Ethics

There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life.

He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity should hold his peace in adversity.

Sin as little as possible - that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All earthly tings are subject to sin. Sin is like gravity.

The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

with the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

But, he said to himself, whether they knew or didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?

Her guilty conscience was as vague as original sin.