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"Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
"Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences"
Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer
"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil"
Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher
"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction"
Erich Fromm, Psychologist
"Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now"
Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian
"One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them"
Olin Miller, Writer
"In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics"
Earl Warren, Judge
"Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer"
Andrea Dworkin, Critic
"Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less"
Robert E. Lee, General
"Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right"
William E. Gladstone, Leader
"Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around"
Frank Howard Clark, Writer
"To do no evil is good, to intend none better"
Claudius, Leader
"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils"
Sophocles, Author
"To do a great right, do a little wrong"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue"
Voltaire, Writer
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"For greed all nature is too little"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say"
Martin Luther, Professor
"Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence"
Malcolm X, Activist
"All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation"
W. H. Auden, Poet
"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong"
Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher
"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause"
Plutarch, Philosopher
"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge"
Dante Alighieri, Poet
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other"
John Adams, President
"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil"
Hannah Arendt, Historian
"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life"
Edwin Markham, Poet
"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it"
Margaret Sanger, Activist
"Evil societies always kill their consciences"
James L. Farmer, Jr., Activist
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
"As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do"
Voltaire, Writer
"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men"
Abraham Lincoln, President
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