Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver"

Alan Watts, Philosopher

Alan Watts

"Saints need sinners"

Alan Watts, Philosopher

Alan Watts

"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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"Only the sinner has the right to preach"

Christopher Morley, Author

Christopher Morley

"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do"

John C. Maxwell, Clergyman

"We become moral when we are unhappy"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure, and moreover, are dictated by that pursuit"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

Phil Donahue

"Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt"

Joseph Addison, Writer

Joseph Addison

"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner"

Joseph Addison, Writer

Joseph Addison

"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human"

Agatha Christie, Writer

Agatha Christie

"Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows"

Lucretius, Poet

Lucretius

"So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds"

Lucretius, Poet

Lucretius

"Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure"

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame"

Tertullian, Author

Tertullian

"The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'"

Tertullian, Author

Tertullian

"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

Thomas Hobbes

"In the state of nature, profit is the measure of right"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

Thomas Hobbes

"We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

Madeleine L'Engle

"Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity"

Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher

Jean de La Bruyère

"If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

Donald Rumsfeld

"We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and, when they are dead, is cowardly"

Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher

Jean de La Bruyère

"It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men"

Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher

Jean de La Bruyère

"True character arises from a deeper well than religion"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

E. O. Wilson

"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

Alfred Adler

"If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

E. O. Wilson

"A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

E. O. Wilson

"The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself"

Jane Addams, Activist

Jane Addams

"Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

Hannah Arendt

"National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

Kofi Annan

"Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

Thornton Wilder

"Sensual excess drives out pity in man"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

Marquis de Sade

"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

Arthur Conan Doyle

"Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

Marquis de Sade

"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all: ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

Marquis de Sade

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