Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

"Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid"

William Cowper, Poet

"If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"Years ago, nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men"

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

"The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline"

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

"It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life"

Pope Francis, Pope

"Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you"

Rabbi Hillel, Clergyman

"I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game"

Wilhelm Steinitz, Celebrity

"Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game"

Wilhelm Steinitz, Celebrity

"I have pushed virtue to outright brutality"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"In our rich consumers' civilization, we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great"

Carlo Goldoni, Playwright

"Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards"

Ali ibn Abi Talib, Clergyman

"Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave, let him obey his conscience"

James Freeman Clarke, Clergyman

"When evil acts in the world, it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one"

Leon Kass, Educator

"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit"

Leon Kass, Educator

"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses"

Shirley Chisholm, Politician

"We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television"

Tom Petty, Musician

"As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own"

Leon Kass, Educator

"Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power"

J. G. Holland, Novelist

"Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist"

Bono, Musician

"His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right"

Abraham Cowley, Poet

"One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing"

Leon Kass, Educator

"If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts"

Leon Kass, Educator

"Too much virtue can be criminal"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated"

Leon Kass, Educator

"Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity"

Leon Kass, Educator

"Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries"

Leon Kass, Educator

"Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the cleverness that we have to make changes"

Leon Kass, Educator

"The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right"

Leon Kass, Educator

"Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal"

Leon Kass, Educator

"I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful"

Leon Kass, Educator

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