ethics

"He cannot give up the principles which the Catholic Church imposes on him. He carries forward that process of rationalisation in Christian ethics which Descartes began, and which, like the attempt to …"

"I have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething; and I grind with greater energy in proportion to the increase of pain."

"Deep inside, I am a shy man. And in the presence of colorful characters, I am a clam. I never try to out-eccentric the eccentricsǃ"

"I once saw a film where the main character didn't speak for the first half hour."

"原文：Character is what you are in the dark."

"Women care about specifics, about details. Men care about generalities, about abstract principles."

"Virtue is like a rich stone — best plain set."

"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."

"Kennedy's most characteristic quality is the remote and private air of a man who has traversed some lonely terrain of experience, of loss and gain, of nearness to death, which leaves him isolated from…"

"The greatest part of mankind want leisure or capacity for demonstration, nor can carry a train of proofs, which in that way they must always depend upon for conviction, and cannot be required to assen…"

"So if morality is innate, it’s certainly malleable."

"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity proced…"

"The collectivity is divided into two classes of people: those who, by virtue of their ownership of the means of doing, command others to do, and those who, by virtue of the fact that they are deprived…"

"A very clever man though perhaps not a very strong character."

"When a fellow says, "It hain't the money, but th' principle o' the thing," it's th' money."

"This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good."

"The price man has to pay for the good things he enjoys is constant watchfulness lest they be employed for evil. Has not this been the case from the dawn of history with drink, language, and liberty? .…"

"I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of …"

"The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect."

"Plutarch, Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Great"