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"A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
"When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
"To know a person's religion, we need not listen to his profession of faith, but must find his brand of intolerance"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it"
Lewis Carroll, Author
"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor, it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality"
Lord Acton, Historian
"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity"
Lord Acton, Historian
"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith"
Lord Acton, Historian
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain"
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher
"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes"
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher
"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man"
Franz Kafka, Novelist
"My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted"
Franz Kafka, Novelist
"Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists"
Franz Kafka, Novelist
"Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins"
Franz Kafka, Novelist
"Compassion is the basis of morality"
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience, not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
"Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
"Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life"
Dalai Lama, Leader
"If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong"
Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer
"All human beings are commingled out of good and evil"
Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer
"Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no"
George Savile, Politician
"Better not be at all than not be noble"
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet
"The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject"
George Savile, Politician
"A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself"
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet
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