Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

Charles Baudelaire

"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

Leon Trotsky

"There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

Simone Weil

"Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

Robert H. Schuller

"One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

Ashley Montagu

"One is often guilty by being too just"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

Rene Descartes

"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality"

John Locke, Philosopher

John Locke

"An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; a villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards"

John Locke, Philosopher

John Locke

"And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"The more highly public life is organized, the lower does its morality sink"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

E. M. Forster

"I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

James Cash Penney

"Evil requires the sanction of the victim"

Ayn Rand, Writer

Ayn Rand

"When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned"

Herbert Hoover, President

Herbert Hoover

"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases"

John Adams, President

John Adams

"Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws"

John Adams, President

John Adams

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

Mary Wollstonecraft

"Be just before you are generous"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

John Kenneth Galbraith

"Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

Anton Chekhov

"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private"

Mary Astell, Writer

Mary Astell

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

Isaac Asimov

"Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

Pope Paul VI

"Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

Thomas Hardy

"Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

Martin Heidegger

"Of two evils, choose neither"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

Charles Spurgeon

"Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"Avarice, the spur of industry"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction"

Joseph Addison, Writer

Joseph Addison

"Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion"

Lucretius, Poet

Lucretius

"He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies"

Tertullian, Author

Tertullian

"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured"

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder"

Tertullian, Author

Tertullian

"The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

Simon Wiesenthal

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