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"The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances"
Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary
"Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large"
Plutarch, Philosopher
"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything!"
Plutarch, Philosopher
"A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues"
Plutarch, Philosopher
"The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other"
Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer
"Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm"
Henry Miller, Writer
"Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"Every man is the son of his own works"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"Virtue is the truest nobility"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"A person dishonored is worst than dead"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
"One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
"He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
"In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
"Malice is always authentic and sincere"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
"The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"A first impulse was never a crime"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
"Really, to sin you have to be serious about it"
Henrik Ibsen, Poet
"Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues"
John Locke, Philosopher
"To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell"
Thomas Merton, Author
"Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest"
Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman
"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet
"Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet
"States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live"
George W. Bush, President
"Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests"
C. Wright Mills, Sociologist
"Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done"
James Madison, President
"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree"
James Madison, President
"Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise"
Horace Mann, Educator
"There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong"
James Madison, President
"The more highly public life is organized, the lower does its morality sink"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
"Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals"
Horace Mann, Educator
"It is well to think well; it is divine to act well"
Horace Mann, Educator
"I am certainly an ought and not a must"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
"If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps"
James Cash Penney, Businessman
"For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock"
Aeschylus, Playwright
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