ethics Quotes

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Politics have no relation to morals.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.