Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer"

Phaedrus, Poet

Phaedrus

"Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it"

George Sand, Novelist

George Sand

"Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race"

William E. Gladstone, Leader

William E. Gladstone

"What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The world is not going to be saved by legislation"

William Howard Taft, President

"What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others"

William Golding, Novelist

William Golding

"The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"Goodness is beauty in the best estate"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

Christopher Marlowe

"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights"

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

M. Scott Peck

"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

Walter Savage Landor

"It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it"

Georges Bernanos, Author

"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means"

Georges Bernanos, Author

"To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better"

Claudius, Leader

Claudius

"How goodness heightens beauty!"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"Nobody does good to men with impunity"

Auguste Rodin, Sculptor

Auguste Rodin

"It is necessary to make virtue fashionable"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason"

James Carville, Lawyer

"Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture"

Charles W. Pickering, Judge

Charles W. Pickering

"Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Human nature is not black and white, but black and grey"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Murder begins where self-defense ends"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

Georg Buchner

"There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy, from the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end"

Iris Murdoch, Author

Iris Murdoch

"Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death"

Hesiod, Poet

Hesiod

"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

James Anthony Froude

"A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's"

Richard Whately, Writer

"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

"The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears"

Albert Bandura, Psychologist

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more"

Nikola Tesla, Inventor

"The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil"

Maria Montessori, Educator

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