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"If the end does not justify the means - what can?"
Edward Abbey, Author
"The Haitian people are gentle and lovable, except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty"
Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist
"Ambition is the immoderate desire for power"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil"
William Gibson, Writer
"You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life"
Pope Paul VI, Clergyman
"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"True virtue is life under the direction of reason"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"If you burn your neighbor's house down, it doesn't make your house look any better"
Lou Holtz, Coach
"Trust should be the basis for all our moral training"
Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier
"I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob"
William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist
"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales"
Aesop, Author
"If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!"
Cesare Pavese, Poet
"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition"
Cesare Pavese, Poet
"We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin"
Mary Astell, Writer
"The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't"
Mary Astell, Writer
"Fame is morally neutral"
Edward R. Murrow, Journalist
"Morality is a private and costly luxury"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"It is always good men who do the most harm in the world"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through"
William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist
"Live one day at a time, emphasizing ethics rather than rules"
Wayne Dyer, Psychologist
"The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar"
Phil Donahue, Entertainer
"First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?"
Jack Kevorkian, Activist
"When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it"
Jack Kevorkian, Activist
"She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that"
Jack Kevorkian, Activist
"A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business"
Jack Kevorkian, Activist
"I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate"
Jack Kevorkian, Activist
"Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?"
Joseph Campbell, Author
"Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive"
Alexis Carrel, Scientist
"Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself"
Alexis Carrel, Scientist
"Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best"
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician
"To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know"
Alexis Carrel, Scientist
"Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue"
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician
"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits"
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Diplomat
"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness, and too much insensibility creates crime"
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Diplomat
"Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows"
Lucretius, Poet
"Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion"
Lucretius, Poet
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