Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"Man is to man either a god or a wolf"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"We are not punished for our sins, but by them"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"It's not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

Robert Browning Hamilton

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"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

George Orwell

"It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Men exist for the sake of one another"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

Marcus Aurelius

"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

Charles de Montesquieu

"Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"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

William James

"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

Edmund Burke

"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

Steve Jobs

"Virtue, she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"Know then this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"All things truly wicked start from innocence"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"Human nature is not of itself vicious"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it!"

Malcolm X, Activist

Malcolm X

"Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

William S. Burroughs

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

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