Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Toleration is the best religion"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"A new philosophy generally means, in practice, the praise of some old vice"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"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

Plato

"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"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

William Blake

"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"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

Mahatma Gandhi

"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

Mahatma Gandhi

"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

Mahatma Gandhi

"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"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

Mahatma Gandhi

"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

Henry David Thoreau

"It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Be not simply good - be good for something"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"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

Henry David Thoreau

"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"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

Henry David Thoreau

"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

Seneca the Younger

"So live with men as if God saw you, and speak to God, as if men heard you"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin, or has not the knowledge to sin"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"Take care that no one hates you justly"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"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

"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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

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