Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"We are punished by our sins, not for them"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"A am a great friend of public amusements., They keep people from vice"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners, and the sinners who think they are righteous"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"Civilization is the making of civil persons"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world"

Euripides, Poet

Euripides

"If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these, for, to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it"

Epictetus, Philosopher

Epictetus

"If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

Pythagoras

"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being!"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life, at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

Charles de Montesquieu

"Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history, power has been the vice of the ascetic"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"Our greatest evils flow from ourselves"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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