Ethics and Morality

The greater man the greater courtesy.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful? E. M.

 

Beat a man with the strength of your argument, not with the strength of your arm.

Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

Freedom is a clear conscience.

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends. J.R.R.

 

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

A country where men despise sex, and live for it.

 

There is a general prejudice to the effect that lawyers are more honorable then politicians but less honorable than prostitutes. That is an exaggeration.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

The cause of freedom, of the defense of man’s conscience, is indivisible. By defending it in one country, we defend it everywhere in the world.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

 

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

 

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Sin is a queer thing. It isn’t the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one’s own integrity.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

ADVICE IS A DANGEROUS GIFT, EVEN FROM THE WISE TO THE WISE, AND ALL COURSES MAY RUN ILL.

There is always a right way and a wrong way, and the wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

Good actions get good results in time.