"Ethics" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... But the merely means that he has everything in common with the educated Londoner—and a little over. His traditions are ours, his standards are ours, his ideals are ours. He is busied with the same problems of ethics, of aesthetics, of style, even of grammar. I had not been three days in New York when I found myself plunged in a hot discussion of the "split infinitive," in which I was ranged with two Americans against a recreant Briton ...
— America To-day, Observations and Reflections • William Archer
... place is assigned to meekness in conduct and humility in spirit. The humility of the Sermon on the Mount may possibly by careful analysis be shown to be identical at bottom with the magnanimity of Aristotle's Ethics. But the presentation of the two is so utterly opposed that in the effect on life the identity is altogether lost. And as justice and mercy, so too self-discipline is pushed as far as it can go. Instead of the enjoyment of life being an integral part of the aim set before the will, hunger and ...
— The Relations Between Religion and Science - Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1884 • Frederick, Lord Bishop of Exeter
... Pete said, "I know. I've changed, too. We all have. Old Frank is a god. And Honey's grown so that—. Even Ralph's a different man. Changed—God, I should say I had. It's not only given me a new hold on things I thought I'd lost-morality, ethics, religion even—but it's developed something I have no word for—the fourth dimension of ...
— Angel Island • Inez Haynes Gillmore
... capture of the holy city did not proceed alone from the inflamed passions of victorious soldiers, but from remorseless fanaticism. Benevolence to Turks, Jews, infidels, and heretics made no part of Christian ethics in those rude times; and as the Moslem in their consciences believed it was the will of Heaven that the religion of their prophet should be propagated by the sword, so their antagonists laboured under ...
— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell
... that I had either made a mistake or deliberately told him an untruth, but I was quite ready for him. I had no time to consider the ethics of the matter. I was out to obey what I took to be my instructions, ...
— The Mystery of the Green Ray • William Le Queux
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