Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected"

George Washington, President

George Washington

"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil"

Anatole France, Novelist

Anatole France

"A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong"

Horace, Poet

"Morals and lights are our first necessities"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

Simon Bolivar

"Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"Evil is only good perverted"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"We do not look in our great cities for our best morality"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can"

William Wordsworth, Poet

William Wordsworth

"A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream"

William Faulkner, Novelist

William Faulkner

"Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

Erich Fromm

"As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

Erich Fromm

"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

Erich Fromm

"There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

Thomas Huxley

"The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

Thomas Huxley

"I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true, and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock, and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

Thomas Huxley

"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does"

Josh Billings, Comedian

Josh Billings

"Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I am certainly an ought and not a must"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

E. M. Forster

"The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

Jacques Yves Cousteau

"He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"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

Plutarch

"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything!"

Plutarch, Philosopher

Plutarch

"A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues"

Plutarch, Philosopher

Plutarch

"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"To a superior race of being, the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

Charles Baudelaire

"Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm"

Henry Miller, Writer

Henry Miller

"Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

Miguel de Cervantes

"Every man is the son of his own works"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

Miguel de Cervantes

"Virtue is the truest nobility"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

Miguel de Cervantes

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