Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"Virtue is the fount whence honour springs"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

Christopher Marlowe

"The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

Anita Roddick

"The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way"

Richard Stallman, Scientist

"I stood there amazed. I found it all hard to believe, that I, Des Nilsen, had actually done all that"

Dennis Nilsen, Criminal

"People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does"

Mitch Albom, Writer

"The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

John Foster Dulles

"We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil"

Claus von Stauffenberg, Soldier

Claus von Stauffenberg

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less"

John Major, Politician

"A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization"

Charles Marion Russell, Artist

"There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable"

Robin Day, Journalist

Robin Day

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"All right, then, I'll go to hell"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities, has the power to make you commit injustices"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost, right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict, the man before the dollar"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements, but in virtuous activities"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"The measure of a man is what he does with power"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"The good is the beautiful"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"There is an orderliness in the universe; there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Crime, when it succeeds, is called virtue"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

Albert Schweitzer

"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

Albert Schweitzer

"Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

Albert Schweitzer

"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Thomas Edison

"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

Lyndon B. Johnson

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