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"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict, the man before the dollar"
Abraham Lincoln, President
"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
"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent"
Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader
"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
"Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness"
Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author
"Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements, but in virtuous activities"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft"
Theodore Roosevelt, President
"The measure of a man is what he does with power"
Plato, Philosopher
"The good is the beautiful"
Plato, Philosopher
"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
"Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Crime, when it succeeds, is called virtue"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"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
"Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
"Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
"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
"Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
"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
"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers"
Carl Jung, Psychologist
"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts"
Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything"
Malcolm X, Activist
"Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love"
William Butler Yeats, Poet
"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"In the midst of vice, we are in virtue, and vice versa"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap"
Kurt Vonnegut, Author
"For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?"
Ann Bancroft, Explorer
"To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist
"It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual"
Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action"
Frank Herbert, Writer
"From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods"
Virgil, Writer
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience"
George Washington, President
"Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty"
John D. Rockefeller, Businessman
"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason"
Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist
"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it"
Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier
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