Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"Knowledge of what is, does not open the door directly to what should be"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"Force always attracts men of low morality"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All who think cannot but see; there is a sanction like that of religion, which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"What is permissible is not always honorable"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice, and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object, but to escape some ill"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Bad men are full of repentance"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side!"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations, and that all reality has spiritual control"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

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