Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

Rabindranath Tagore

"In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics, he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

"The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors"

Samuel Smiles, Author

Samuel Smiles

"Nice is different than good"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

Stephen Sondheim

"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

Christopher Dawson

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people, which is the measure of right and wrong"

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

Jeremy Bentham

"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else"

John Galsworthy, Author

John Galsworthy

"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do"

Potter Stewart, Judge

Potter Stewart

"Morality is only moral when it is voluntary"

Lincoln Steffens, Journalist

Lincoln Steffens

"A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it"

Jet Li, Actor

"Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"Fear is the mother of morality"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Virtue has a veil, vice a mask"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"Hell is full of good meanings and wishings"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent"

Bob Dylan, Musician

Bob Dylan

"Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people"

William Blackstone, Judge

William Blackstone

"Live or die, but don't poison everything"

Anne Sexton, Poet

Anne Sexton

"These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say"

Martin Luther, Professor

Martin Luther

"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

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

Malcolm X, Activist

Malcolm X

"Who sows virtue reaps honor"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

Leonardo da Vinci

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"

Lord Acton, Historian

Lord Acton

"Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome"

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less"

Robert E. Lee, General

Robert E. Lee

"There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people, we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people, we use it for good purposes"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

Herbert Simon

"To do no evil is good, to intend none better"

Claudius, Leader

Claudius

"Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it"

Andrew Young, Clergyman

"Blame is for God and small children"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"Good men must not obey the laws too well"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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