Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more"

Georges Bernanos, Author

"The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster"

Rebecca West, Author

"The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

Arthur Erickson

"To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"A selfish man is a thief"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly"

Jose Marti, Activist

"It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion"

James Carville, Lawyer

"Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life"

Jose Marti, Activist

"There is no bad in good"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

Arthur Erickson

"America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards"

Charles W. Pickering, Judge

Charles W. Pickering

"What is the thread of Western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of Western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

Arthur Erickson

"Virtue is reason which has become energy"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Morality without a sense of paradox is mean"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination"

Al Gore, Vice President

Al Gore

"Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals"

Richard Pryor, Actor

"Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again"

Natalie Portman, Actress

Natalie Portman

"We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain"

Walter Winchell, Journalist

"The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil"

Georges Bataille, Writer

"The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives, and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"Politics is not about money"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

Stokely Carmichael

"I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

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