Ethics

“我们揭开窗子说亮话，我们也是将本求利，我们不要说为国为社会等等好听的话。但是我们认为在贸利当中，可以凭着良心上的主张，加一套改良社会、提高社会道德的力量在影片里，岂不更好？”

“Kalau kita lihat dengan gunung es, ekonomi syariah itu hanya puncaknya saja yang paling bawah itu beliefs (kepercayaan) dan values (nilai).”

“There is really no difference between dropping a bomb and killing an innocent man.”

“In a world without beauty [...] the good also loses its power of attraction.”

““There is an imperishable and unchangeable standard, under which we discern that our behaviors should have no deviation or transgression.””

“The principle, however, upon which I found the necessity of abolition is not Policy but Justice.”

“when people deeply understand the hearts of others, they naturally act so as not to harm society or other people.”

“O gece tiyatroyu altmış liraya bir Ermeni’ye terk ettim, şehremaneti ve Darüşşafaka’ya ianeten teslim ettiğim paraları herkes bilir.”

“That surplus wealth is a sacred trust, to be administered during life by its possessor for the best good of his fellow-men.”

“There is a complex side to each human being, there is good and bad.”

“The office and calling of a theologian is so wide, that no argument or controversy on any subject can be considered foreign to his profession.”

“Ubuntu is the principle that we act humanely and with respect towards others as a way of demanding the same from them.”

“If you don't stick to your principles, you'll be dead on arrival.”

“Solo cumple con su deber quien va más allá de sus obligaciones.”

“The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”

“There can, there can be, but one moral standard of excellence for mankind, whether male or female.”

“The one and the whole work of education may be summed up in the concept—Morality.”

“The sole and entire task of education is encompassed by the concept, “morality.””

“It is not profitable for us at present to do moral philosophy.”

“We can say that the ethical system of the philosopher Confucius is sublime.”