ethics

"A virtuous person is better than virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice."

"I’m basically the idea person. I’m not physically involved in the production. I don’t have the neces-sary abilities, so I go to the top people, whether I’m working with my foundry — Tallix — or in phy…"

"I have never opened with the QP – on principle."

"After publishing Loving in the War Years which was very autobiographical, my own story had finally been told on the page. This allowed space within me for character my unconscious…"

"There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his characters. Nor is he necessarily to be accredited with the same opinions as his charac…"

"Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue."

"For the first time, I will smile without feeling guilty, because joy is not a sin... For the first time, I will avoid anything that makes me suffer, because suffering is not a virtue."

"Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person."

"I have laboured to abolish the infernal spirit of religious persecution by uniting the Catholics and Dissenters. To the former, I owe more than ever can be repaid. The service I was so fortunate as to…"

"And now in America itself after 30 years of experimenting with the Great Society programmes, there is widespread crime and violence, children kill each other with guns, neigbourhoods are insecure, old…"

"The hijab has nothing to do with moral values. A woman's moral values are reflected in her eyes, in the way she talks, and in the way she walks. They put on a hijab and go dancing, wearing high heels …"

"I wondered at the time, what had happened to the moral fibre of the island race - the stiff upper lip, if you like - to make them behave like professional mourners howling for hire. The Prime Minister…"

"The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing …"

"Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend."

"Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like."

"“Gambling is a wretched vice,” Lady Corey replied with a sniff. “A snare for men of weak character."

"The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Vo…"

"Whatever may be the case in a Court of morals, there is no legal obligation on the vendor to inform the purchaser that he is under a mistake, not induced by the act of the vendor."

"Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character."

"One wonders whether the ethnic categorization effort at finding solutions to problems that cross ethnic boundaries. Poverty is poverty is poverty. It does not have peculiar ethnic characteristics."