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"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less"
Plato, Philosopher
"To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils"
Plato, Philosopher
"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so"
Plato, Philosopher
"Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class"
Plato, Philosopher
"Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"A new philosophy generally means, in practice, the praise of some old vice"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on"
Robert Frost, Poet
"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars"
William Blake, Poet
"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s"
William Blake, Poet
"The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective, it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot"
Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman
"When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all"
Publilius Syrus, Poet
"Take care that no one hates you justly"
Publilius Syrus, Poet
"While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"Be not simply good - be good for something"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover, I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"So live with men as if God saw you, and speak to God, as if men heard you"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin, or has not the knowledge to sin"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men"
Confucius, Philosopher
"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort"
Confucius, Philosopher
"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"The virtues are lost in self-interest, as rivers are lost in the sea"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"We moralize among ruins"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
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