Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

Johan Huizinga

"Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

Johan Huizinga

"The Haitian people are gentle and lovable, except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

William F. Buckley, Jr.

"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

Mary Astell

"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

Mary Astell

"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

Joseph Campbell

"An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

William Makepeace Thackeray

"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

Cesare Pavese

"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

Cesare Pavese

"Ambition is the immoderate desire for power"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"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

Pope Paul VI

"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"True virtue is life under the direction of reason"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"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

Baruch Spinoza

"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"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

Baruch Spinoza

"Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

Alexis Carrel

"Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

Alexis Carrel

"To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

Alexis Carrel

"Morality is a private and costly luxury"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"Fame is morally neutral"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

Edward R. Murrow

"It is always good men who do the most harm in the world"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"Trust should be the basis for all our moral training"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

Robert Baden-Powell

"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"Live one day at a time, emphasizing ethics rather than rules"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

Wayne Dyer

"I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"I have the knack of easing scruples"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

Charles Spurgeon

"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

"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

Jack Kevorkian

"When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

Jack Kevorkian

"She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

Jack Kevorkian

"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

Jack Kevorkian

"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

Jack Kevorkian

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