Quotes about Ethics

We may be indifferent to the death penalty and not declare ourselves either way so long as we have not seen a guillotine with our own eyes. But when we do, the shock is violent, and we are compelled to choose sides, for or against... Death belongs to God alone.

For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians.

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

A good mayor is a useful person. How can you hold back when you have the chance to do good?

He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. Which was he to take?

No man was created good by God, nor can be made entirely bad by man.

To be wicked does not insure prosperity.

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.