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"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
"The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people"
Charles E. Trevelyan
"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
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws"
Plato, Philosopher
"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
"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people, which is the measure of right and wrong"
Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher
"Nice is different than good"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else"
John Galsworthy, Author
"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do"
Potter Stewart, Judge
"Morality is only moral when it is voluntary"
Lincoln Steffens, Journalist
"A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it"
Jet Li, Actor
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible"
Voltaire, Writer
"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
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"
Samuel Johnson, Author
"Hell is full of good meanings and wishings"
George Herbert, Poet
"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent"
Bob Dylan, Musician
"Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons"
Herman Kahn, Scientist
"These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"Fear is the mother of morality"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"Virtue has a veil, vice a mask"
Victor Hugo, Author
"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
"Who sows virtue reaps honor"
Leonardo da Vinci, Artist
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
Lord Acton, Historian
"All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome"
Tacitus, Historian
"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
"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
"Good men must not obey the laws too well"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"The devil's voice is sweet to hear"
Stephen King, Author
"If there is no God, everything is permitted"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
"All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind"
Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman
"The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present"
Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer
"Sin is geographical"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine"
Sigmund Freud, Psychologist
"It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
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