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"Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver"
Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher
"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
"It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct"
Sigmund Freud, Psychologist
"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think"
Sigmund Freud, Psychologist
"Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings"
George Orwell, Author
"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility"
George Orwell, Author
"Men exist for the sake of one another"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
"As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world, by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way"
William James, Philosopher
"Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"All things truly wicked start from innocence"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"Virtue, she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"Know then this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"Human nature is not of itself vicious"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do"
William S. Burroughs, Writer
"Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender"
Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher
"Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
"There are heroes in evil as well as in good"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
"It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
"All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig"
George Santayana, Philosopher
"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime"
Will Durant, Historian
"Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel"
Jack London, Novelist
"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
"There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men"
Lord Acton, Historian
"Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
"An intellectual hatred is the worst"
William Butler Yeats, Poet
"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt"
Franz Kafka, Novelist
"In a certain sense, the Good is comfortless"
Franz Kafka, Novelist
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may"
Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer
"Be virtuous and you will be vicious"
Samuel Butler, Poet
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